Gestures, part 3

As I was working on a story where the two of the leads were eighteen and thirty-two, my daughter mentioned that she had a boyfriend. (I had kind of guessed this, the hickey on her neck was a big give away.)  I knew he had to be older than her because all the guys in her dance class over the summer were older. And I was pretty sure he was a guy from her dance class because this was only the second week of the new semester and the only hobby she has time for outside of school is the local dances on the weekends, which she'd been to pretty faithfully lately. And that these last few weeks, she'd always had a ride home. 

So I asked his age. He's eleven years older than her. I'm not really freaked out, she's twenty after all, but I'm kind of weirded out. (he's closer to my age than hers.) But I probably shouldn't be because every story I'm currently working on except this one and Harmonies, the leads are at least that far apart in age.



Title: Gestures
Status: Part 3 of 10
Genre: science fiction, romance, slash
Rating: PG (13?)
Content: knots, secrets, helpful children, achy feet, a loom, swimming, a story, a rude awakening, Python, flowers, wooing gifts, blown kisses, a discussions, plans, sleep
Length: about 4,000 words
Summary: Colt is wooed by a guy in love with someone else and finds that he doesn’t mind.

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When Lion returned, he sat beside Colt and tried his hand at the knot Colt was teaching the older children. Grandfather called him away. Lion came back a few minutes later and sat down as if nothing had happened. He showed Colt and the children a complicated knot. A woman called the children to work. They left the leather thongs they had been knotting. Colt collected all the ones he could reach and removed the knots.

Lion cleared his throat. “Horse mate?”

( Could Colt give up his old life and go native? )