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    Coffee Shops and Condoms
    Coffee Shops and Condoms
    Coffee Shops and Condoms
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    Coffee Shops and Condoms

    By Eden Winters

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    Two teenaged boys, an unlimited supply of condoms, and too much time on their hands. What could possibly go wrong?

    Part of The Real Story Safe Sex Project.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEden Winters
    Release dateFeb 24, 2014
    ISBN9781497718098
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      Coffee Shops and Condoms - Eden Winters

      Coffee Shops and Condoms

      By Eden Winters

      Dave Preston pointed at a laden basket sitting just inside the coffee shop doorway. Oh, my God! Is that...? Right in the open. A rubber rainbow!

      They’re condoms. Now, stop pointing and pick your jaw up off the floor. This is Asheville, not Podunk. We have things like this here. Billy Henderson stepped into the shop behind Dave and closed the door.

      None of the people waiting in line to place orders seemed to pay the basket any attention. Several pairs of eyes, however, focused on Dave. Oops. He shoved both hands into his pockets and closed his mouth. Billy’s bemused smile wasn’t necessary. Not at all. I can’t help it I’m from the country. Things are different here. Dave fought the urge to poke his lip out.

      Here being Asheville, North Carolina—a haven of enlightenment and open-mindedness. That is, if his Aunt Lisa was anything to go by. She’d lived in the city since leaving the family farm at age eighteen to sell pottery and artwork. Dave’s mom called her a hippie. Dave called her cool.

      Billy’s, What’ll you have? gave Dave an excuse to ignore the basket, though his face still flamed.

      I don’t know. What’s good? Back home the closest coffee shop was a twenty minute drive. Asheville sported one on every corner, it seemed. Dave wouldn’t dare tell Billy that this was his first encounter with a barista.

      Moving hadn’t been something Dave had planned, or even wanted.  His coming out had gotten him trounced by homophobic rednecks at school, earning him a one-way ticket to Coolville, or rather, his aunt’s loft apartment in the city.

      He and Billy had met a month ago on Dave’s first day at a new school, and so far, Billy’d called him a virgin about one hundred times. Never rode a crosstown bus, never ordered a burger and fries at school, never bought ink pens and paper from a vending machine...

      Billy gave him knowing smirk number four-hundred forty-seven. Or was it forty-eight?

      Hey, I can’t help it if my parents raised me in the woods instead of civilization. Sometimes Dave’s heart ached to be home, but he wasn’t going to tell that to Billy. Mr. City Boy had never gone hiking in the mountains, never trout fished in the streams, and considered a night at Motel 6 roughing it. He wouldn’t understand.

      I’ll order for both of us, Billy said.

      Dave

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