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    “It seems I’ve inherited a diner.”

    “Yes, I knew that.”

    “That’s been closed and left to rot for years.”

    “I knew that as well.”

    “I’ve decided to keep the place. Renovate it, get it running, see where it goes.”

    “That is certainly a decision.”

    “It gets worse. It seems I’m going into business with Alex Claremont-Diaz.”

    Pez is silent for a long moment. “The Alex Claremont-Diaz? The one that has been featured in Food & Wine four times. The one that Carme Ruscalleda and Enrique Olvera have called the next big thing? Your uni sweetheart? The love of your life? The man whose heart you shattered into a million pieces? That Alex Claremont-Diaz?”

    “Do you know of another?”

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    20 Dec 2024

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    “Fuck,” he swears while David barks from the doorway, his feet tip-tapping against the hardwood anxiously. “It’s okay,” Henry tells him, “really, I have it under control and there’s nothing to be concerned—.”

    The sharp trill of the smoke detector cuts him off, and David goes flying into the living room, tail tucked between his legs.

    Henry sighs and grabs his phone off the counter and quickly dials 9-1-1.

    “9-1-1,” the operator says as Henry starts after David, “What’s the nature of your emergency?”

    “I can’t be certain,” Henry begins, “but it’s entirely possible that there’s about to be a fire in my kitchen.”

     

    Or, 5 times Alex comes to Henry's rescue, 1 time Henry returns the favor.

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    16 Dec 2024

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    Five days a week, Alex sits across from Henry for 58 minutes in the morning, rattling on about the virtues of the Tube and how efficient it is compared to the NYC subway, or his irrational dislike of Pret coffee, or a new bookstore he thinks Henry would like.

    Five days a week, Alex and Henry leave the shelter together to take the bus home. They almost always end up standing for part of the way, occasionally bumping up against each other. Sometimes, Alex doesn't move away. It's nice.

    Five days a week, Henry falls a little bit more in love.

    Or, Alex and Henry fall in love—five days a week, four bus routes, three pseudo-dates, two holiday markets, and one red scarf of fate later.

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    13 Dec 2024

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    "So," Henry says as Alex's brain makes a valiant effort to reboot because he's staring at Henry fucking Fox, the man he has spent the better part of a decade staring at through a small author's photo. It doesn't even begin to do him justice and he's only now fully realising it, "your daughter is a fan of my work?"

    "Huge," Alex chokes out, struggling to not make a fool out of himself. "Dragged me here."

    Henry raises an eyebrow, face utterly amused as he says, "Really? Because I could have sworn I just heard her tell Issa that her 'lame dad' forced her to come here."

    "Huh,”Alex says, "Kids, am I right?"

    Alex's daughter is growing up, a fact he is entirely not okay with.

    She's becoming a teenager, thinks he's the most boring, lamest dude alive and wants nothing to do with the traditions they had while she was growing up - especially reading Henry Fox's books.

    But when Henry Fox begins a reading programme at their local library, she is sat in the front row. Because she wants to be, not because Alex is forcing her. Not because Alex is slightly in love with a man he's never met, the first person to actually see him.

    Obviously.

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    28 Nov 2024

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    Against everyone's better judgement, tattoo artist Alex takes up a babysitting job on the side after he forms a connection with the kid over their shared love of art. It doesn't hurt that his dad's kind of hot, too.

    He gets more than he signed up for the longer he spends with them, and figures out that maybe the key to happiness isn't what he thought it was — maybe growing up means being a little childish after all.

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    21 Nov 2024

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