Though he dislikes Christmas, Alex Phillips works at the mall as one of Santa's elves, with their too-tight green denim jeans and Vulcan ears. He is flabbergasted when his co-worker elf for the season turns out to be Corin Perry, his old high school crush.<br><br>When they were still at school, Alex was the "gay emo goth" kid and Corin was the "handsome jock with a girlfriend" kid. They moved in different circles, although that didn't stop Alex from having a crush on Corin all through high school.<br><br>Meeting now as adults, Alex realises he might have been a dick to Corin in high school and that Corin has his own issues to face. Can their newfound friendship become something more and rekindle Alex's Christmas spirit?

Photo Finish

“What are you drawing?” A shadow fell across my paper.


My gaze followed Corin as he eased down on the metal bench beside me. He had such amazing cornflower blue eyes, a color that didn’t exist anywhere else outside of a crayon box. I wondered what it would be like to kiss him and blushed at the thought of running the tips of my fingers along the edge of his jaw where he was starting to grow the first inklings of a blond beard.


“A dragon,” I stuttered as I gathered my wits. “What happened to your arm?” My amazement that the perfect specimen of sexy was speaking to me made my brain momentarily NSFW and it wasn’t until he was struggling to open a copy of The Grapes of Wrathwith one hand that I noticed the sling.


Chapter 2