Kim Fielding - Speechless 1 - Speechless by Speechless

Author:Speechless [Speechless]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

IT WASN’T raining. Even the Pacific Northwest had a few

sunny days in August. The bus let Travis off practically in front of his old apartment building, which looked as tired as when he’d left. The roses in front were blooming, though, and that was nice.

Despite the weather, and even though it was 5:23 in the afternoon, there was nobody on the steps in front of Drew’s house. No handsome man with unruly light brown hair and dazzling blue eyes. Travis took a deep breath and walked up the stairs.

Drew didn’t look surprised to see him. Maybe he’d been watching out his living room window, like he used to on rainy days before he met Travis. Watching the world go by. He stood in his doorway in black jeans and a dark green Tshirt, his face giving nothing away.

“Hi,” Travis said. “Can… can I come in?” After a long, considering minute, Drew turned and went back into the house, leaving the door open. Travis closed it as he came in.

Elwood was curled up on the back of Drew’s couch. He cracked open his eyelids, tilted his head to stare at Travis with his good eye, and then closed them again as if Travis were beneath him. Traitor.

Travis stood awkwardly while Drew went into the kitchen, then returned with two green bottles. He handed one to Travis, who took a long, grateful chug. “Thanks. So, um, is everything okay?”

Shrug. “Has, um, has that brown goop helped with Elwood’s hairballs?”

Drew pointed eloquently at a small stain on the area rug.

“Oh. Guess not. Um, maybe if you up the dosage? I know he doesn’t like the stuff very much, but if you sort of squish it onto his paws he’ll lick it off. He’ll probably be pissed at you for a while though. Or if you wanted, I could call the vet and ask her what to do. She might, um….” He sort of stuttered to a halt.

Drew was just looking at him, eyebrows raised like drawbridges. Travis was pretty sure that even if Drew could talk, he’d be giving Travis the silent treatment right then.

Travis took another long swallow, then set the bottle on a nearby bookshelf. “Yeah, so Omaha sucks. I mean, the people are pretty friendly and they have great steaks, but the weather’s awful and it’s mostly flat. You can go, like, hundreds of miles and there’s hardly anything but cornfields and pastures. And it’s all just, I don’t know, sort of normal and boring and… and you’re not there. Obviously.”

Drew sort of sucked in his upper lip for a second and then drank some of his beer. He leaned back against the wall as if he were prepared to wait all day for Travis’s aimless babbling to run its course.

Travis looked down at his feet, but they were singularly unhelpful. He’d been thinking about what to say to Drew ever since Eleanor had left Cathy’s; while he was packing his shit into his battered old suitcases; while he was

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