The Party Boy's Guide to Dating a Geek (Clumsy Cupids) Read Online Free Page B

Hanging the new flash designs in the
    front of the shop and cleaning everyone's supplies
    kept him busy while everyone else saved the
    galaxy.
    By the time they closed up, Ash's head was
    pounding from lack of sleep and the constant
    barrage of ray guns echoing in the room. It seemed
    like every customer who walked in stayed to
    watch a good portion of whichever movie was
    playing, and there was a run on tattoos of little
    white robots.
    "Deli's?" Ty asked while they waited for Tank
    to finish locking up.
    "Nah, you guys wrecked me with the movies
    today. My head's killing me. I'm just going home."
    Ty reached over to touch Ash's forehead with the
    back of his hand. "What's that for?" Ash asked.
    "Just seeing if you're running a fever. You're
    staying in two nights in a row." Ty pulled out his
    cell phone. "I'm going to call Guinness."
    "You're a laugh a minute, you know that?" Ash
    flipped his collar up and tucked the bag of movies
    under his arm as he turned to leave. "See you
    tomorrow."
    The apartment was blessedly silent when Ash
    got home. His roommate Carley was out of town
    on a buying trip for the boutique store where he
    worked. Jae would have been home from his job at
    the restaurant, so Ash figured he must have gone
    back out. Ash hung his coat on the rack in the
    hallway and lumbered to his room. He dropped the
    movies on his bed and wandered back to the
    kitchen to grab a drink out of the fridge. A plate
    was balanced on top of the beer bottles with a note
    in Jae's handwriting saying, "Eat something, will
    you?" He even included microwaving instructions.
    Ash smiled and ate the meal cold standing over the
    sink. After doing his dishes, Ash carried a bottle of
    water to his room and crashed onto his bed. He
    slept straight through until morning.
    1.3
    It took him a few days, but he managed to get
    through all six movies Ty had lent him. The frenzy
    surrounding them still didn't make sense to him.
    Sure, he enjoyed them, but he didn't feel a lasting
    connection with them after he turned the DVD
    player off. He certainly didn't feel the need to
    quote them relentlessly the way he'd seen some
    people do.
    One thing they did do was fuel his desire to see
    Fee again. Seeing Han Solo in action brought the
    daydream of Fee wearing his costume back to the
    forefront of his mind. The cockiness of the
    character fit with Fee's light flirting. In those
    moments when he let his guard down, Fee was
    every bit as charming, and as dangerous to Ash's
    self-control, as the pirate space captain.
    It wasn't as if any of that mattered. Fee still
    hadn't called or emailed. It had been a week since
    Jack said he would ask Mari to pass his info on,
    and he was still waiting to hear from Fee. He was
    starting to get annoyed. He'd never had to work so
    hard to get someone to notice him before. And this
    was work, with the guidebook and the movies. It
    felt like he was studying for the hardest exam of
    his life.
    He checked the clock on his phone one more
    time before he picked up the gift he had bought at
    Carley's shop. There was nothing wrong with
    giving his brother a housewarming present. And if
    he happened to get Mari to give him Fee's phone
    number or email address while he was there, well,
    then that would just be a bonus.
    He kept trying lines in his head the entire trip to
    his brother's. Outright asking if Mari had passed
    his info along didn't seem right. He knew Jack and
    Mari would keep their word, so he had to assume
    Fee had it. It was getting to the bottom of why Fee
    hadn't used it yet that was bothering Ash. He
    couldn't come up with a good reason by the time he
    got off the L train at Jack's stop. He was still
    turning the problem over in his mind when he
    reached their apartment.
    "Hey, bro. What are you doing here?" Jack's
    gaze drifted over Ash's shoulder when he
    answered the door.
    "Am I interrupting something?" Ash checked
    behind himself to see what Jack was looking at.
    "Sorry. We ordered pizza. Just looking