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“Figured we’d be busy,” I said.
He nodded. “Thanks for the heads-up last night. Perks of being a storm watcher, huh?”
“Well, we got to Jeremiah’s office and the bureau radars started going off.”
“Ah,” he said. “Gotta love getting firsthand inside information.” He stepped inside my office with an awkward look on his face and I knew he was about to say something about yesterday. “So, Jeremiah, huh? Your mother and I wondered why we hadn’t seen much of you lately, and your brother told us you’d met someone.”
I sighed, but stupidly couldn’t help but smile at the mention of his name. “Yeah. Jeremiah. He’s uh... He’s kinda great.”
“And he’s staying with you?”
“He is. It was just supposed to be a temporary thing. Given he had no notice about takin’ on the job here.”
“But now it’s not temporary?”
“I’d like it not to be,” I admitted. “We haven’t really talked about it. He just got back with some gear yesterday. We met you guys, then went straight to his office and got the cyclone warning. We didn’t really have the chance to talk about much.”
Had the chance to give mutual handjobs in the shower though...
“You really like him,” Dad said. “It was good to see you happy with him yesterday. Your mum’s over the moon. Finally getting to meet your... your...”
“Boyfriend.”
He grinned at the confirmation.
Then, like a sudden pimple appearing, my brother Ellis walked in. “Oh, if it isn’t little love-struck Tully-wully who couldn’t keep his hands off his boyfriend’s face yesterday.”
I threw my stapler at his head. He deflected it with his arm and it hit the floor, separating into pieces. “Ow.”
Dad huffed at him. “Pick that up.”
He rubbed his forearm. “He threw it at me.”
“You deserved it,” Dad said.
Ellis sneered at me and I gave him the middle finger. He picked up the stapler and all the staples and dumped them in a pile on my desk.
Dad was back in boss mode. “Meeting at nine in the boardroom.”
He left and Ellis sat down in the chair across from my desk. “So, cyclone, huh?”
I sighed. “Yeah. Jeremiah’s pretty confident it’ll cross land here. It might change. Hopefully it’ll get downgraded.”
He watched me for a second. “You really like this one, doncha.”
It wasn’t a question.
I nodded.
“I mean, you’ve had dates before, but I ain’t ever seen you be all touchy-feely with ’em like you were with him.”
“Shut the fuck up,” I said jokingly.
He shook his head a little. “His eyes. They’re so blue it’s freaky.”
“He’s not freaky,” I snapped. I wasn’t joking this time. Sure, when I’d first met Jeremiah, I’d thought the same. But after getting to know him and knowing that people had called him freak and weird his whole life, I couldn’t help but feel defensive.
Ellis put his hands up. “Okay, calm down.” He watched me again, and if he was waiting for an apology, he wasn’t getting one. “I get it. Sorry,” he said. “Youreallydo like this one.”
