Midsummer by Racheline Maltese & Erin McRae

Midsummer by Racheline Maltese & Erin McRae

Author:Racheline Maltese & Erin McRae [McRae, Racheline Maltese and Erin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-04-29T04:00:00+00:00


MICHAEL DOESN’T get all the makeup off before they get sent out to talk to the cops. John thinks he rushed and missed some of the green around his eyes by accident, but as Michael shakes hands with the woman who introduces herself as Officer Carter with an impish sort of smile, John realizes he’s done it deliberately. Even in the bright afternoon light it makes him look more than a little otherworldly.

John’s both a little bit in love and a little bit annoyed. There is a time to fuck around and it probably is not when the cops and a mystery skull are involved. He’s pretty sure that Officer Carter feels the same way from the raised eyebrows alone.

“So you’re the two who found our friend,” she asks, in the heavy Virginia drawl that sounds way more at home out here than any of their New Yorkness.

Michael nods.

“Yes, ma’am,” John sighs.

“And where was it you found him?”

“The pond out back,” Michael says. He waves a hand incredibly vaguely in what John can only assume is the correct direction.

“Last night?”

“Yeah.”

“What were you doing back there?”

Michael glances at John. John looks helplessly back.

“Exploring,” Michael says.

Officer Carter gives him a look.

“Making out,” he corrects.

She looks genuinely surprised. “Really?” she says, looking back at John.

“Michael…,” John sighs.

“What? We were.”

“You’re gay?” she asks John.

“Um,” John starts, and then has no idea how to answer, or how any of it is relevant to anything. It is exceptionally awkward.

Officer Carter gives him a look that is patient, but the sort of patient that is very clearly communicating that John should hurry the hell up and answer the damn question.

“For the purposes of this conversation, yes.”

“So what, you’re not gay?”

“Ummm,” John says. Now he’s getting unimpressed looks from both Michael and the cop.

“Oh, crap,” she says, looking between the two of them like she’s just figured everything out. “Does your wife not know?”

“…We’re divorced,” John says, a little miserably.

Michael huffs.

“Riiight. So.”

“Is it material to anything to do with the skull at all?”

“How about you tell me where you were and how you got there and what you found, and let me figure that out.”

John sighs and explains about the pond, and the walking, and the wading, and the slipping, without touching too much on what exactly they’d been up to, although he’s sure the lines are plenty clear enough to read between. When he gets to the part about Michael digging the skull up out of the mud, Officer Carter turns to give Michael a look.

“You pried it up out of the ground.”

Michael nods. He still looks entirely unperturbed by the questions, if not by John.

“A skull.”

“I didn’t know it was real!”

“Nothing about the skull in the ground in the woods on old land suggested to you the slightest possibility.”

Michael shrugs. “We’re a theater company.”



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