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It wasn’t a question, but Scott nodded again. He took another sip of his coffee, the tension slowly leaving his body. Feeling a little better, I kept going. “This thing with Dare is going to be the same. Whether we do it or not, that’s not going to affect our friendship.”
Scott shrugged, but actually spoke more than a single word, so I considered it a step in the right direction. “It’s not like we’d just be dating the same guy. This is different.”
He didn’t bring up Ian by name, but I knew what he was thinking about.
Shying away from the topic of Ian might have made me a chicken, but I was fine with that. I wasn’t ready to talk about that part, and if Scott didn’t want to either, that was good with me. Finding out your friend liked to be bossed around in bed could be weird.
“Yeah…I know, but it’s…I don’t know. He made it sound reasonable.” Erotic. Sexy. Fascinating. There were other words that would have worked better, but they’d sounded intimate, even in my head.
Scott barked out a laugh and almost choked on the drink of coffee he’d swallowed wrong. When he stopped coughing, he shook his head. “Um, understatement?”
I had to laugh. “Maybe.”
But he’d still sounded…interested…and Scott hadn’t said no.
His gaze fell to his cup, and he swirled the coffee around for a moment. “What do you think he’s going to want to do? Like some kind of a sandwich or something more…like with everyone. Fuck. I sound like a kid.” Scott laughed at himself and took a breath before trying again. “Is he going to expect us to fool around with each other too? We’ve never done anything like that.”
That was the million-dollar question.
“No idea. He’s…confident, but he didn’t push too hard last night, so I don’t think that will change. When we were texting last night, he said we needed to talk things out first.”
“You guys were texting too?”
“Yeah.” I shrugged. “There was a lot on my mind.”
“Yeah.” Scott nodded and watched his coffee cup like he was afraid it would get up and move on its own. “We were texting about stuff and he said the same thing. Do you think he really wants to…date us? Not just get his kinky rocks off and leave but really date? Do people really do that?”
“Well, the internet universe says they do but the kinkiest thing our town had was Mr. Jamison and his ‘long-term tenant’ Mr. Brooks.” They were two older guys who’d been living together for so long the town had forgotten to be scandalized somewhere along the way.
Scott chuckled. “After I came out, Mr. Brooks came up to me in the store and told me that I could always come by and talk if I needed to.”
They were nice guys. “Mr. Jamison came up to me once we were in college and said that if you ever needed a place to live to let him know.”
Scott’s parents hadn’t exactly taken the news of his coming out well. They hadn’t shoved him to the curb, but he hadn’t gone back in years and they only called on Christmas and his birthday. My parents had done their best to adopt him and treated him the same way they did me, but it wasn’t the same thing.
Scott grinned. “They’re great. Maybe we should get your mom to send them a Christmas card or something from us this year.” The king of changing the subject had done a damned good job…or maybe this one had been my fault. I wasn’t sure.
“Yeah, her list is ten feet long already, one more won’t matter.” Not sure how to bring the conversation back around, I gave up trying to be subtle. “Are you okay with what Dare talked about? We can tell him no if you want to.”
I just wasn’t sure what would happen if we did that. Would he end up wanting to date just one of us? He’d flirted with both of us and we’d both found him attractive at the bar, but Scott had never talked about wanting someone like Dare. Did Scott even understand the other stuff that Dare had been hinting about?
Scott looked up again. “Doyouwant to tell him no?”
“Oh no, I asked you first. No changing the subject.” I wasn’t dealing with that answering a question with a question crap.
Scott chuckled. “I guess I’m okay with it.”
That wasn’t a confident enough answer. “Do you want to date him together and see what happens?”
“No, you’ve got to answer the other question too before you get to ask another.”
“I guess I’m okay with it.” I cracked a smile when he rolled his eyes. “Now, do you want to date him together?”
“I guess.”
“I guesshe’s got himself two guys to date.”
Lord. We were either going to be the most interesting people Dare had ever dated or the most boring. I wasn’t sure which.
