Still chasing my own tail. I hate this feeling but I do have good news. The knee seems to be healing well and I went to the Bob Evans Farm Fest to relax a little so that was nice.

Picking up with These Haunted Hills. They’re outside the Wells home trying to get EVPs (as the home is boarded up)

“Did you get an EVP of Wells?” He glared after the dog. “We’re not going to get any tonight.”

“Hell no, not with all that noise. And no, I did get a few but nothing that leads me to believe it was Wells.”

“Can I hear them when we get home?”

Josh balked. Brendan could practically hear the wheels turning in his head. “One or two I guess. Not sure I have them all.”

“Why don’t you want me to hear them?” He didn’t point out again that Josh was a bad liar. He knew it.

“Honestly because one of them is a little kid calling for her daddy.”

Brendan caught his breath and sad nothing for several long moments. “Yeah I don’t want to hear that.”

October, my favorite month. Maybe I can keep on track with a ghost story this month. I am so overwhelmed as of late that I am not able to keep all the balls in the air.

Continuing with These Haunted Hills. Brendan and Josh are still talking. They do that a lot.

Athens is way more liberal than here. Just keep that in mind in case you suddenly can’t keep your hands off this fine body.” Josh let go of the steering wheel so he could gesture to himself with one  hand effectively lightening the mood.

“It’ll be an effort but it’ll restrain myself,” Brendan replied dryly.

Josh chuckled. “Hey if your ghost hunter is anything like me, just don’t let the ghosts do rude things to me.”

“Wait, that can happen?”

“In theory. I can say I’ve never had it happen though I swear someone groped me once. Could have been Cass or Hunter messing with me though.”

“Any of you pull that on me, you will DIE in the book.”

Still not back into the swing of things but I’m trying. And since I’m way behind in literally everything I’m dropping my snip and running. This is still from These Haunted Hills.

“And it’s you I care about, not the fanboy part of you. I mean that’s flattering of course but Josh, I like you for you. I came out as bi years ago to my fans when I wrote that into the series for John. If someone doesn’t want their kids reading my stories because I’m dating a man, it’s not going to matter to me. For every conservative dipshit who wants my books banned because of John’s orientation or mine, there are two people who’ll buy the books just because of the controversy. I want to be seen with you.”

Josh sighed. “Good. I haven’t told anyone. Well, it’s only been two days since you kissed me and god, I wanted to tell Cass but I haven’t. We hadn’t talked about it and the part of me that wants to shout to the world I’m with B.A. Halloran, the intelligent part of me knows that would be super uncool and disrespectful.”

I cannot get back into the swing of this to save my soul. However, I survived two weeks of being in front of the classroom and did not need to resort to my walker in lab. My cane is good enough so progress. I even joined the Y to keep this leg going in the right direction. That leaves little time for anything else though.

I’m picking up right where I left off with These Haunted Hills. Brendan and josh are driving around being geeks.

“Can I ask you a question now?”

“Always.”

“In Dungeons and Dragons you’re a chaotic good half elfin ranger, aren’t you?” Brendan smiled.

Josh’s head drooped. “I think part of me hates you for seeing through me so well but the other part of me is like wow, he knows Dungeons and Dragons. I am crazy about you.”

“I can live with that.”

“Want to roll up a character and join us?” Josh grinned.

“I don’t know I’d go that far but I want to go to the steampunk party. Think I’d be welcome?”

Josh all but danced on the seat. “Are you kidding? Everyone is welcome but of course you’re welcome. You could be my date…if you want to.”

The hesitancy in that last bit cut into Brendan. Did he think Brendan wouldn’t want to be seen with him? “Of course.” I would love to be your date. We did sort of skip that part, didn’t we? Did you think I wouldn’t want to be seen in public with  you?”

“I wasn’t sure. I mean…” Josh sighed. “You’re famous and I’m…me.”

Since I’m forever running late and I have to get stuff ready for the start of the semester in a day I’m just dropping more of These Haunted Hills and running. Where I left off was with them in Point Pleasant and now Josh is driving Brendan around to explore some of the little towns (sorry this is more than 6 lines) For context Vince is a character in Brendan’s bestselling YA series

As they made the long drive on Route 35, Josh filled him in on the haunts and a bit of town history before turning the conversation back to the Green Tablet.

“Seriously, why did you kill off Vince?”

“Never going to be forgiven,” Brendan muttered. “Originally it was going to be John but killing off a bisexual main character really would have gotten me flak, probably deserved. Besides, Connor wouldn’t have spoken to me ever again.” He touched his pendant again. “He was pretty steamed that Vince died.”

“I’m with your son on that one.”

“Someone had to die. It was part of the curse, remember? If I had wrote around that, it would have been a giant plot hole or a deus ex machina ending and I didn’t want that. So poor Vince died.”

“I ugly cried.”

“You said.”

“For DAYS.”

“I’m sorry.”

“You owe me.” Josh drew the word out.

“A blow job?”

Josh jerked. “Don’t make me wreck.”