Summer Life
And just like that, they return to their summer days.
There has been a shift, though. Their games continue—kissing, touching, borderline s*x play—but for Ryan, that’s no longer what it is. It’s not play, not games.
It’s real, now.
For a week or so, he says nothing about it. He is too pleased—stupidly pleased, considering how tame their interactions still are—to be around Alex again. Too content with the odd kiss to want more.
But that state doesn’t last long, and he feels that, really, he should be as honest with Alex as he has been with Tom.
Well, maybe not too honest. After all, he still doesn’t know—suspects, but doesn’t know (is this what being a parent is like?)—whether Alex feels the same way.
A couple of weeks after their snogging session in Alex’s bedroom in the
