When Victor Hill bought a house with his boyfriend, Jian Kouri it was a dream come true. But now, two years later, instead of living their happily ever after, they hardly see the other awake.<br><br>With Jian out the door before Victor gets up in the morning, and asleep on the couch nearly as soon as he walks in the door, the life Victor imagined couldn’t be further from reality. They don’t talk; they don’t touch, and Victor fears he and Jian have already drifted too far apart.<br><br>The holiday season is a time for hope, but when Victor comes home to find Jian with a plan to woo him for Christmas, is it too little, too late? The dates are great, and there are filled with Christmas fun to get Victor in the right spirit for the holiday, but are they enough for the two of them to fall in love again? Or is there just too much in their relationship that needs fixing?

24 Dates

Last night had been awesome, but he was so tired. It didn’t help that it was pitch black outside, and so cold he feared his nuts would be forever damaged. He fired up his computer and got ready to answer the phone.


The sick reports would start to roll in any second. There were probably a number of them on the answering machine already. After New Year, they’d have a new system where he wouldn’t have to answer the phone. It would be a service where the guardian (or whoever called in) would tap in the student’s social security number, and it would report it directly into the system. It would be great if it worked, since the first hour of his day always went to reporting absences, but he doubted it would be as simple as they made it sound.


Chapter 5