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“So,” Auggie said, toying with a staple, “hi.”
Theo paused in the middle of sorting the sixth-period exit tickets. He glanced up.
Auggie had big, brown, doe eyes. When he wanted to.
Sighing, Theo came around the desk. He kissed his boyfriend. “So. Hi.”
“I came to check on you.”
“I thought there was something about a spanking.”
A grin flashed and burned itself out. “You didn’t sleep last night.”
“I slept all right.”
Auggie rolled his eyes. “You have to be quieter next time you get out your gun, then.”
Theo didn’t say anything to that.
“Maybe don’t swear so much when you’re checking the load.”
“God damn it.”
“Like that.”
Theo rubbed his eyes. The school’s silence was unnatural after a long day of shouting and talking and backpacks banging into chairs. He thought he could smell fresh toner on his hands.
“Do you really think we’re in danger?” Auggie asked.
“I don’t know. I don’t…trust my judgment right now.”
Auggie was silent.
When Theo lowered his hands, Auggie was studying him. “I’m not having a nervous breakdown,” Theo said. “If that’s what you’re wondering.”
“I think if you were going to have one, it would have happened while I was still in college.”
That startled a laugh out of Theo, and Auggie grinned.
“If you say we weren’t followed,” Theo said, “if you say nobody can identify us, I believe you. But I’m worried there’s something we missed. If Gid recognized Shaniyah’s name, if he thought he told you too much, if he went to tell that other man about you, and that’s why it looked like he was following us—” He cut off, unable to finish the sentence.
“Then they could have gotten stills of us from the security cameras,” Auggie said. “They could be showing them around, asking about us. It wouldn’t be too hard to find us. We don’t exactly blend in.”
“I blend in fine, thanks.”
“Theo!”
“It’s not your fault, babe. You’re too good-looking.”
Auggie rolled his eyes, but he was blushing—still, after all these years.
“I’m not sure how many other people were wearing a hundred-and-eighty-dollar sneakers in the Cottonmouth Club last night, though.”
Auggie opened his mouth.
“Something to remember.”
“Rude!”
