Amaretto Sour

Gene liked dressing up. He spent good, hard earned money on real suits. No one ever believed it, since he most often wore jeans and t-shirts, but he did. Part of it was his dad, whom he remembered in his pristine suits, or relaxing over dinner in vest and tie. Dignified and classy, like.

Six of his tie pins had belonged to his dad; his mother had given them to him the Christmas after dad had died. He owned way more ties than anyone, even his mother, thought healthy. The last person to fuck up his dress shoes still crossed the street whenever he saw Gene.

He didn't often dress up, because it was a lot of fucking work when people so seldom appreciated his effort, but he had fun when he did.

Of course, sometimes it behooved him to be a little more awake when he got dressed.

What could he say? It had been a long, satisfying night. Games, tequila, and sex.

So he'd gotten up late, and hadn't really been what he would call awake. He'd gotten showered and then decided on the dark blue with gray pinstripes, a gray and silver tie, shoes polished to a shine.

It totally wasn't his fault Teddy had stayed in bed and so hadn't been awake to point out that Gene had forgotten to strip off his nail polish.

Really, though, the English Department should be used to him by now.

And bright pink nail polish wasn't half so bad as the incident with the high heels freshman year.

Finished ^_^ I wish all my stories worked this well. Then again, I wrote it so fast, maybe it'll wind up sucking. Who knows?

In two parts.

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So, nikerymis texted me today, demanding I alleviate her boredom. I told her when it doubt, think naughty thoughts. We didn't actually wind up with naughty:

Megan: When in doubt, think naughty thoughts. How about American Revolution soldier and a Brit making out in your tower. Their ghosts haunt it.
Nikery: Oooh, clandestine meeting spot when they lived, perhaps?
Meg: Yep, yep. It probably ended tragically but they are happy ghosts? Maybe their descendants meet there.
Nik: They can be meddlesome ghosts and encourage fraternization between said descendants
Meg: Sounds perfect. So maybe modern boys don't get along at first.

And that distracted me, and I assume saved her from boredom, and she said it would be neat to see how we both executed the same premise.

I post this with a warning: I am not the greatest at contemporary, and cannot do anything period to save my life. I'm not looking to be accurate right now, when/if I get around to proper research, I'll probably ask for help. Right now, I'm just playing around. It's also keeping me from freaking out. So, there are going to be a lot of flaws in this. I beg your patience and forgiveness. If the story holds together, at some point in the future I will work harder at making the history stuffs more accurate. Suffice to say, every last bit of it is made up.

Also, it's not finished yet. This is like the first eight pages or so.

Nikery, I wait with much glee to see what you will come up with eventually <3

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