“Jesus,” Thiago muttered.
“He was here, Thi,” Shawn hissed, just barely containing his excitement.
Remy had been there. Last night. “So much for keeping his fucking head
down,” Thiago observed with a little snicker.
“Little bastard,” Shawn muttered happily.
“Well, open it,” Thiago urged in amusement.
Shawn looked at him briefly and then at the box. Thiago reached out and
nudged it slightly, moving it from the spot where Remy had left it and seemingly
breaking the spell it held over Shawn.
Shawn reached for it and picked it up carefully. He turned it over and over in
his hands and shook it carefully. Thiago half expected him to smell or lick it. He opened it slowly, as if by touching it he was somehow closer to the man he loved for a brief moment in time, and finally when he peered inside his green eyes sparkled and he actually laughed out loud.
He threw his head back and laughed joyously as he pulled the thing out and
showed it to Thiago, and Thiago took it carefully in his hand and laughed along with the other man. It was a Christmas ornament; an alligator with antlers taped on its head, being ridden by a smiling Santa.
His hand found a note attached to the bottom, and he pulled at it and opened
it up. It had only five words on it, written in Remy’s loopy hand.
“It’s written in purple crayon,” Shawn whispered gleefully as he held his
side and giggled in a most unbecoming manner for a man of his temperament.
Thiago grinned and looked at Shawn as he read aloud the title Remy had
given the little alligator figurine.
“Beignet and Dixie Ride Again.”
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