Page 11 of Magic and Mayhem

“I bring treats for playdate day.” He kept wiggling as he watched me explore his kitchen, being patient while I found a plate and a good knife to cut his snack.

“I bet everyone looks forward to them.” Since it didn’t seem like kinks were something anyone was deliberately hiding, I didn’t feel bad asking about the playdate at the VFW.

I’d never heard of a Veterans of Foreign Wars Hall that ended up hosting kink events, but nothing in this town would surprise me. “I’m picturing the guy who works at the garden center over by the highway and that quiet guy who works at the library.”

They were both human as far as I could tell but there was something about them that made me think they were at least open to the lifestyle. But the library guy was painfully shy and the plant guy was definitely into bad boys.

As I plated up the cheese and apple slices, I looked over to see Kenzie sitting there with his mouth open. “No?”

He blinked a few times before nodding and then shaking his head…so I just waited for the translation.

By the time I was bringing his snack over to the table in a matching plate and cup with cartoon dragons on it, he’d gotten over his surprise. “Alick is little too. He works at the plant nursery. But the shy man at the library…he’s little? I thought he was just afraid of everything.”

Well, he might’ve been afraid of the aliens in town too, but I thought it was more shyness instead of fear.

As I set his snack down, I moved around the table to sit across from him. “I think it’s more being shy and an introvert. He’s definitely not vanilla, but I can’t promise he’s little.”

I could probably make a good bet on him being into the cranky accountant but that wasn’t my business.

Frowning thoughtfully, Kenzie picked up a slice of cheese and an apple, stacking them up together. “We’ll have to go introduce ourselves then. He got here just before you did, I think? We had a hard time finding a librarian too.”

Because aliens didn’t like to read?

“Our last one retired and no one else seemed to want to sit inside and organize books all day.” Kenzie said that so seriously as he started in on his food that I couldn’t tell if that meant aliens liked being outside or didn’t understand why books were good…or maybe what a librarian did.

A mix of all of it?

Putting that issue off for the time being, I focused on what I did know. “He seems nice and I heard him politely decline a dinner invitation from a woman by explaining he was gay. So at the very least, we know that much.”

She’d been a sparkly alien too and hadn’t gotten offended. She also hadn’t been surprised, so I wasn’t sure she’d actually wanted to date him. I was guessing fact-finding mission, but I might’ve missed out on some cultural context.

“Lana.” Kenzie shook his head as he picked up another bite. “She’s kind of nosy and she likes to date everyone, but that’s just because she doesn’t like to pay for her own dinner. She askedmeout.”

Yep, missing context.

And since she’d avoided asking me out, I was starting to think she was a dominant of some flavor looking for a sub…because Kenzie was almost sparkly-level gay.

“He didn’t seem upset by the question, so I don’t think we have to worry about it.” She also seemed to have moved on since I hadn’t seen her truck at the library lately, so the librarian didn’t seem to need saving.

“How should we ask him if he’s a sub?” Kenzie cocked his head and scrunched up his face in a thinking gesture. “I don’t think we’re supposed to just ask.”

Webeing aliens or locals?

“Well, maybe you and Lorne should go over when it’s slow sometime and introduce yourselves…then…then ask if he’s heard about the group?” Yeah, there wasn’t a great way to do it. “We’ll have to work on what you should say. That’s hard.”

Human or not, that was going to be an interesting conversation.

“Can we also talk about who else you think would like to come?” Kenzie gave me wide eyes and a pleading look that was completely fake and utterly adorable. “Figuring that out is hard. We don’t just have toys, though. We’ve got stuff for pups and snacks for regular subs and everything.”

What kind of snacks did regular subs need?

Nope.

I wasn’t going to ask.

“Yes, I would be happy to help you figure out a list of who to invite.” I wasn’t sure if having a ratio of humans to aliens that was skewed in favor of aliens would give us more members of the kink community than average or not, but I was curious to see how the data turned out.

And I was also curious to see if my cutie would actually date me and become my cutie…but what did I need to know before asking out an alien?

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