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“And he wants you to meet the people who are important to him. To me, that seems like he’s taking things to the next level.”
“Actually, I’ve already met a few of those people. I was just helping his brother’s boyfriend put together a costume for a festival his town is hosting this weekend. It’s their place we would be staying at. And Quin invited me to come up for the weekend, too.”
“This all sounds fantastic.”
“Does it?”
“Yeah. The guy invited you to learn more about him. And because his brother’s boyfriend also invited you, the pressure would be off from it being a date. By the way, his brother has a boyfriend?”
I smiled. “I guess hot and gay runs in their family. Although, I think they both might be bi.”
“They’re bisexual?” Cory asked with more interest than I was willing to dive into right now.
“You should meet them. They’re pretty cool… even though they’re football players.”
“They’re football players?”
“Yeah,” I said with a smile.
“Kendall, I don’t even know who you are anymore.”
I laughed. “I’m not sure I do either.”
“But, I think you should go. I’ve known you for a while. I’ve never seen you this into something, much less someone. What if he’s your chance at happiness? Wouldn’t it be worth taking the risk… even if there might be a few complications?”
Chapter 8
Nero
I was going out of my mind waiting to hear what Kendall decided. I had invited him back to Snow Tip Falls. Everyone I ever knew was there. If he was with me, I knew I wouldn’t be able to hide how much I liked him and they would see it.
And, what would my mother say? She had no problem with Cage and Quin, but she had been introduced to them as a package. If she wanted to have her son back, she was going to have to accept both of them. Now, I wonder if she likes Quin more than me.
But, unlike the two of them, my mama’s known me my entire life. I’ve never given her or anyone reason to believe I could be into guys. This was going to be a complete surprise to her.
And what would everyone else I knew say? I didn’t exactly hang with the most enlightened people. Things could turn bad quickly. I knew I could shut anyone up who stepped out of line, but that didn’t mean it wouldn’t bother me.
At the same time, I was helpless to Kendall. I could barely breathe when I was around him. All I could think about was holding him, and pushing myself into him with my arms wrapped around his chest and my lips on his neck. I have never been more turned on by someone in my life.
That could have been what was behind my recent play. Or, maybe it was that I now had a reason to leave it all on the field. I wanted to impress Kendall. I wanted him to see that being with me would be worth it no matter how fucked up I am.
But, hell, maybe that was just a dream. Maybe I was too fucked up for anybody. Meeting Kendall had made me hope that I was wrong. I was willing to risk everything to be with him. All I needed was for him to text me back and give me that chance.
I was starting to think that Kendall was gonna ghost me when a picture appeared in our text thread. It was of him and Quin standing in front of what looked like a human-sized moonshine jug.
Nothing about the picture made sense. I knew he and Quin had hit it off. But when did they start hanging out together? And why was there a giant moonshine jug in Quin’s living room?
‘How much of that moonshine did you two drink?’ I wrote back.
‘Well, we had to empty the bottle, so…’
I was still very confused.
‘Do you need someone to walk you home? Because I’m close.’
A picture was the next thing to appear. This time the two of them were pretending to be drunk as they drank out of the jug. They were clearly having a good time.
‘You know that stuff will make you go blind, right?’
