Amir has been through so many bad relationships that he finally turns to the horoscopes in his local paper for advice. They claim his happiness is around the corner, but “indigo guides the way.”<br><br>Within the hour, a man comes into the bike shop where Amir works with an indigo bike. Amir’s coworker and ex immediately invites Jae, the cute cyclist, to accompany them and their biking group on their next adventure.<br>Unfortunately, Jae brings along his boyfriend Declan, and Amir wonders if the horoscope meant he could learn from their relationship. At first they seem like a typical couple, but the more Amir pays attention, the more worried he becomes. His fear peaks when he finds out Jae’s bike isn’t the only thing indigo about him ...

Indigo Guides the Way

Amir’s face burned as he went into panic mode. “I mean, I care. I care about you. I don’t want to see you suffer. I don’t want to see anyone suffer, but you—I think you’re cute. Really cute. Since the day I met Declan I knew you could do better. Never thought it’d be me, because, well, I’m a hot mess myself sometimes and I didn’t think I was necessarily better or whatever, but at least I knew I’d never hurt you. I wished I had someone like you as my boyfriend because I was jealous of you and Declan, but only because he got to be with you and I didn’t.” He said all of this in what felt like ten seconds, but if the laws of time and space had broken it could have been ten minutes. There were no windows in the workshop. For all he knew the rest of the world had vanished, or maybe this room had been jettisoned to another dimension where he was doomed to make an idiot of himself when he was supposed to be helping.


Chapter 24