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23. Beefcake
"You're getting your books awfully late today," Raphael noted, ringing Hunter up.
"Yeah man, running from class," Hunter said, frazzled. "Gotta jet over to The Pitstop and open up."
"You're awfully light, too. ‘Avengers' and ‘Hawkeye'? That's it?"
"I've gotta lighten my recreational reading. Haven't been in school forever and my course load is freaking me out a bit."
"You've got to pick up ‘X-Treme X-Men.' Did you SEE the cover?"
Hunter chuckled. "I don't read the books for the beefcake."
"Right," Raphael smirked. "You read for the articles."
"Nah man, I blame Lifield. He gave gay geeks everywhere distorted body image."
"And if that failed, the Abercrombie catalog was right there to do the job. You sure you don't want to pick up anything else? How about ‘Superior... '"
"Stop right there. You know how I feel about that."
Raphael rang up his books and grabbed his bag from behind the counter. In his haste to squeeze in his weekly trip to Chicago Comics between class and work, Hunter had forgotten to zip up his bag properly. His class notes spilled all over the floor.
"Shit, I'm sorry." Raphael said, helping him pick up his papers.
"It's my bad dude."
"Looks like you're really paying attention in class," Raphael teased, holding up class syllabuses covered in doodles.
"Yeah. I mean, I know school's the right thing to do, y'know? To get my life back on track? But I have a hard time focusing, just like high school. I dunno. Maybe if I knew what I wanted to actually study I'd have a better time at it."
"How about art?" Raphael replied, holding up a doodle. "This is good Hunter. Like really good."
"That's just a sketch of the guy I'm dating... "
"Well if he looks anything like this in real life... I mean talk about beefcake. It's really good." He finished gathering up the papers into the bag and handed it to Hunter. "Maybe you'll draw your own comic book one day."
The whole way to work, Hunter wondered if it was too late to drop his Forensics class and late register into an art class.
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"Yeah man, running from class," Hunter said, frazzled. "Gotta jet over to The Pitstop and open up."
"You're awfully light, too. ‘Avengers' and ‘Hawkeye'? That's it?"
"I've gotta lighten my recreational reading. Haven't been in school forever and my course load is freaking me out a bit."
"You've got to pick up ‘X-Treme X-Men.' Did you SEE the cover?"
Hunter chuckled. "I don't read the books for the beefcake."
"Right," Raphael smirked. "You read for the articles."
"Nah man, I blame Lifield. He gave gay geeks everywhere distorted body image."
"And if that failed, the Abercrombie catalog was right there to do the job. You sure you don't want to pick up anything else? How about ‘Superior... '"
"Stop right there. You know how I feel about that."
Raphael rang up his books and grabbed his bag from behind the counter. In his haste to squeeze in his weekly trip to Chicago Comics between class and work, Hunter had forgotten to zip up his bag properly. His class notes spilled all over the floor.
"Shit, I'm sorry." Raphael said, helping him pick up his papers.
"It's my bad dude."
"Looks like you're really paying attention in class," Raphael teased, holding up class syllabuses covered in doodles.
"Yeah. I mean, I know school's the right thing to do, y'know? To get my life back on track? But I have a hard time focusing, just like high school. I dunno. Maybe if I knew what I wanted to actually study I'd have a better time at it."
"How about art?" Raphael replied, holding up a doodle. "This is good Hunter. Like really good."
"That's just a sketch of the guy I'm dating... "
"Well if he looks anything like this in real life... I mean talk about beefcake. It's really good." He finished gathering up the papers into the bag and handed it to Hunter. "Maybe you'll draw your own comic book one day."
The whole way to work, Hunter wondered if it was too late to drop his Forensics class and late register into an art class.
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Week One, Week Two, Week Three, Week Four, Week Five
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Week One, Week Two, Week Three, Week Four, Week Five
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