When Gabriel goes to the annual gaming convention, planning to play as many games as he can during the next three days, he doesn’t expect to be glared to death in the parking lot by a really cute guy.  So when the same guy joins the game Gabriel is playing, Gabriel is determined to make him smile, even if it takes some awkward flirting.<br><br>When Aitor makes it inside the convention center after someone steals his parking spot, he doesn’t expect to be so attracted to the man he decided to hate just a few minutes earlier.  But as he gets to know Gabriel through gaming and flirting, he just can’t look away.<br><br>The game of flirting has no rulebook, but for Gabriel and Aitor, it may just have two winners after all.

No Rulebook for Flirting

“He clearly was. Did you see the way he sneered at me when he saw my shirt?”


Ah, yes. Aitor had also noticed the shirt. It was a bit strange, seeing someone wearing a Trans Rights Are Human Rights shirt at one of these events. And Gabriel had completed the outfit with a rainbow flag pin attached to his nametag. He studied the way the trans flag distorted a bit over Gabriel’s belly. Hewas curious, but he didn’t know if he should ask, or if the answer would be something that would make him feel worse.


Fuck it, he didn’t have to see this guy again if he didn’t want to.


“I’m curious. Why the shirt? Why wear it here, of all places?”


Gabriel shrugged. “I have a trans niece. My sister-in-law got this for me when my niece came out, and I’ve worn it to these kinds of events ever since.” He chuckled. “You should have seen me before. I wore the ugliest rainbow flag shirt you can imagine. I still think Clara got this one for me so I would get rid of that one.”


Chapter 3