The Outcasts (Lost Boys) by Kelly Fox

Author:Kelly Fox [Fox, Kelly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-07-10T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 3

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PRESENT DAY

“Uncle Leo!” Hikaru shouted, dropping his duffel to run over to me. I’d gotten to Sawyer and Hen’s a few minutes earlier and was helping to welcome new arrivals.

“Damn, dude. You’re almost as tall as me,” I said, holding out my fist to the gangly teenager. He bumped it, and we both blew it up because we were cool like that.

Ru had been a little kid when I first met him. His fathers, Beckett and Holden, adopted him after he was rescued by the same folks who’d rescued me, and he and Ren—Holden’s dad and Major’s husband—were as tight as two people could be.

I followed him out to the swimming pool, then grabbed him and jumped into the water.

Ru sputtered when we broke the surface, laughing his ass off before starting a splash war. That continued until we saw Sawyer making his way to the pool area carrying a pitcher full of iced Kool-Aid, baby Holly on his hip.

Ru and I exchanged a look. Time to act normal. We smiled innocently as Sawyer set the pitcher on the table.

“Leo, how can I tell the kids no running or splashing in the pool area when you’re the biggest instigator?”

Busted. Still, I wasn’t going down without a fight. “How am I supposed to take you seriously when you’re wearing board shorts? I mean, you look like such a dad.”

He tried to pull one of his classic stern glares, but any mention of him being a dad made him go soft all over. “Fine,” he said, shifting the sleepy baby so that she could rest her head on his shoulder. “But Dexter skinned his knee the other day running around, and I’d like to set a good example for my own kids, you know?”

I grimaced. Even when I felt like a loser for being the only one in our group of friends unable to get into a relationship, being an honorary uncle to the kids of the original Lost Boys made me smile, and there was nothing I wouldn’t do to keep every one of them safe. “Sorry, Sawyer-man. I’ll do better.”

“Thanks.”

After he went back into the house, Ren, Major, Beckett, and Ru took turns teasing me for getting into trouble, and I dunked an innocent-slash-unsuspecting Holden for not taking my side. After they were done chirping at me, we started a game of water volleyball—with increasingly hilarious handicaps because I was, by all measures, the superior player.

The kids tied one of my hands behind my back for one set, and I had to stand-slash-hop on one foot for the next. Dexter, who’d racked up a few injuries in the name of science, made me put on the tiny eye patch he’d had to wear after a kitchen experiment gone wrong. Even though it barely fit over my eye, it hadn’t been much of a handicap.

The most challenging one was playing while eating a burger. That didn’t end well for the burger. Or the pool, come to think of it.

Whatever, I still won.

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