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“Of course.” Kevin nodded. “Try to get Steve back on this planet while I’m gone, okay?”
“I’ll do my best, but I’m not making any promises.”
The bell on the front door jingled as a tall middle-aged woman came in. She looked around in faint surprise, but then she seemed to make up her mind. She approached the counter, saying, “Hello!”
“Hi,” Kevin said. “What can I get for you, ma’am?”
“Do you have any cupcakes? With sprinkles?”
Kevin tried not to grimace. “No, ma’am. We are a pizza restaurant.”
“But the name—”
“Yes, ma’am, I know.” Kevin slid his other Ding Dong across the counter. “Here you go. Free of charge. Now what kinda pizza would you like?”
“O-oh, well…”
“Why don’t you eat that Ding Dong first and think about it, huh?”
The woman got flustered. “But I wanted a cupcake! I don’t understand why the name hascakein it if there’s no cakes here!”
“I’m thinking of selling some of my cookies here, just so you know,” Julie said as she shooed Kevin away from the counter.
“Go for it,” Kevin grumbled.
“Hi!” Julie greeted the customer. “We have a wide variety of specialty pizzas, including a few dessert pizzas, such as our Fudging Great Chocolate Pie…”
Kevin left Julie to deal with the customer to check on James in the kitchen. He ignored that the shrine to Deku and Katsuki had grown and was now spilling over onto the prep counter. Judging by the stack of pizza boxes, James was almost finished with the order.
Kevin packed the boxes into hot bags, saying, “Hey, how’s it going?”
“Good!” James didn’t look up from cutting the next pizza. “There’s finally a new update on this fanfic I’ve been stalking, and I can’t wait to read it. It’s an AU where my guys meet at a pizza place! Isn’t that cool?”
“So cool,” Kevin agreed, even though he didn’t understand a word of it.
“If you want to read it, I can send you the link.”
“Uh, yeah.”
Kevin wasn’t completely sure, but he was pretty confident that whatever James sent him was going to be porny.
Not that he cared if people online wanted to write about fictional guys kissing, but he wouldn’t mind doing some real kissing of his own.
It had been over a year since he’d been on a date. His relationships tended to burn white-hot and then out very quickly. The initial connection with another person felt good, but it was never enough to last for more than a few weeks. That hollow feeling, that sense ofemptiness, would always return and ruin everything.
Kevin had tried so many times, and he had grown tired of breaking hearts. He didn’t see the point in starting a new relationship when they all felt doomed to fail.
Because of him.
Because there was somethingwrongwith him.
It was better to be alone.
Less complications, less guilt, less problems.
Yes, he was lonely. He lay awake night after night longing for the warm touch of another, to be held and loved, but that wasn’t meant to be. Not for Kevin. He didn’t know how to fix himself, and he was tired of hurting people.
If he wasn’t smashing their heart into pieces, then he was being too rough in bed. He didn’t mean to be, but every partner he’d ever had complained about it. It didn’t matter what position he tried—he was always too much.
