Tuesday Tales - Picture Prompt

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Welcome back! This week is our picture prompt week and all posts must be 300 words or under and reflect the chosen image. Today we have a snippet from Touch of a Yellow Sun, Colors of Love #2. Today’s excerpt has us seeing a gentler side of my boy Marek.

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I rapped on that pretty white door and waited out in the hallway like a gentleman. Shey tugged the door open, obviously confused when he saw me standing in the corridor with an envelope in my hand.

“You don’t have to knock,” he reminded me.

“Yeah, I know but this is official.” I held out the envelope.

“I wish Pete would get glasses,” he sighed while taking the bright blue envelope. Our postal carrier was in desperate need of spectacles. Shey and I were always getting each other’s mail.

“Open it,” I prompted when he began to turn away. One golden eyebrow jumped up his brow, but he did as asked, lifting the flap carefully. “Tell me your one of them people who refuses to tear wrapping paper and opens the gift real slow and gentle before folding the paper back up all neat and shit.”

“No.” He peeked at me through some loose hair. “Maybe. Oh, stop snickering,” he nudged me with his hip as he eased the card out of the envelope.” Uhm, babe, I’m not having a boy.”

He held up the ‘Congratulations on your new baby boy!” card.

“Yeah, I know. I crossed that out. It was the only card they had at the thrift shop that come with an envelope. Just read the inside.” I tugged the card from his fingers and opened it. “This here on the inside – not the scribbled-out stuff but the words I wrote – that’s the important shit.”

“You’re really quite adorable at times.” He leaned in to kiss my whiskery cheek.

“You keep that shit to yourself. I got a reputation to protect.”

His eyes scanned the scribble inside the card then rose to me. “Is this an invitation to Sunday dinner at your place?”

“Yeah,” I replied, inhaling the smell of oils on the air, or maybe the intoxicating scent was coming from Shey. “I figured, you know, it was time for me to pay you back for all the foot rubs, tea, tofu burgers, zucchini squares, and blow jobs.”

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