Jigs and Reels

Elijah works in a cubicle, lives with his parents, and never goes on dates. It isn’t an exciting life, but it’s safe and easy and that’s good enough. Then he meets Peter, a whirlwind of a man who leads a traveling renaissance band. Peter represents everything Eli usually avoids, but his boisterous enthusiasm is infectious… and his band needs a fiddle player. When Eli agrees to fill in for a weekend, he awakens a part of himself he thought long gone. With Peter’s help, he shakes off the dust that has settled on his soul and remembers how to have fun. But when the band asks him to join them permanently, is Eli’s newborn sense of adventure -- and insane crush on a man he barely knows -- enough to make him leave the safety of a life he’s clung to for years?

Leigh M. Lorien · LGBT+

Not enough ratings

20 Chs

Chapter 18

“Keep in touch. You’ve got our numbers. And if you change your mind about joining up…”

“Thanks,” I said, putting up my best good-natured smile before exiting the vehicle. I paused on the stoop and turned back to wave to the couple, saying goodbye to the last chance I had at ditching my desk job and joining something that fulfilled my soul. Before I could rush back down the sidewalk and throw myself into the vehicle again, screaming “Take me with you!”, they were pulling away from the curb and heading down the street. And it was for the best, anyway. I wouldn’t be able to hack it in a life like theirs.

But if I was so sure of that, why, then, was I so miserable?

With a sigh, I headed inside. I had to work in the morning, after all.

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