\u201cThat\u2019s him!\u201d Xavier nudges Charlotte in the ribs. They watch from behind the register\u2014average height, blue suit taute around his muscles, a blonde\u2019s arm hooked in his.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut I\u2019ve never seen her before. Shit.\u201d<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Jennifer drags Oscar through the aisles, looking at nothing in particular. Oscar grabs a random tube. \u201cWhat the hell is BB cream, and why is it $55?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s for blemishes, not that you need it. Why do men always have perfect skin and long eyelashes? Like that guy over ther\u2014\u201c<\/p>\n
\u201cShut up! That\u2019s him. We shouldn\u2019t have come. He probably thinks I\u2019m a creep. I never buy anything.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cReally?\u201d Jennifer inspects him. \u201cYeah, you do give an American Psycho<\/em> kind of vibe.\u201d Oscar gasps, slapping at her shoulder.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Charlotte pushes Xavier. \u201cTalk to him. No straight man acts like that.\u201d<\/p>\n Xavier crosses his body. \u201cRuPaul, give me strength!\u201d He refreshes his lip gloss, orange against his dark skin, and struts towards the duo.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cJen, he\u2019s coming!\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cHere!\u201d Jennifer hands Oscar mascara. He brings the wand to his eye, but a warm hand smacks it away. Oscar looks up, stunned, caught by Xavier\u2019s bright green eyes lined in yellow, lashes to the heavens.<\/p>\n \u201cYou\u2019re too pretty for pink eye. Try this.\u201d Xavier hands Oscar a disposable wand. \u201cXavier. I\u2019ve seen you before.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cOscar.\u201d He slides the wand in and out with a slurp, his eyes landing on Xavier\u2019s wet lips.<\/p>\n Xavier takes the tube from him. \u201cFirst time with makeup?\u201d<\/p>\n Oscar swallows. \u201cFirst time with everything.\u201c<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “You\u2019re too pretty for pink eye.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182,"featured_media":22114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3530],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-flash-fiction","writer-tasha-rothlisberger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21533"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22116,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21533\/revisions\/22116"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}