2 Works by saudades
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It’s no wonder Jon finds himself three cups of eggnog deep at the refreshments table, cheeks warm and toes tingling. He should really know better; Professor Tipton is renowned for spiking her eggnog as liberally as she grades her finals, buoyantly insisting that the holidays are a time for good will and good cheer.
It does the trick, though; the alcohol dulls the increasingly suffocating anxiety to a faint twinge. By the time that Patrick finishes making the rounds and knocks his shoulder companionably, Jon manages a real smile.
“Shit, Jon,” Patrick laughs. “I leave you alone for an hour and you’re toasted.”
(Or: Jon is an accomplished young Psychology professor at the University of Illinois, and Patrick is a 1st year doctoral student working on Jon's research project. There's just one problem: before the semester started, they met at a gay bar and had a one-night stand. What was originally a passing fling becomes infinitely more complicated when, over the course of the year, they realize that they actually like each other.)
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It’s raining outside. Patrick can hear the patter of it against the floor-to-ceiling windows lining Jonny’s bedroom when he closes his eyes, muted slightly by the pulse of blood through his ears and the repetitive shush of Jonny’s ceiling fan. He swallows, throat contracting loudly in the relative stillness of the room. Fuck, he has no idea how he ended up here, naked, leaning back on the mountain of pillows against Jonny’s headboard, nervous sweat drying tacky on his bare skin under the fan’s lazy rotations.
Jonny had invited him over for Xbox and beer, which was still weird as fuck to Patrick, to hang out at Jonny’s condo like they were buddies or something and Jonny wasn’t a guy that Patrick had been watching, idolizing, since he was a kid, pretty much.