Rainbow Road
supercute Horn-Boy.
    After shaking hands with Kyle, the two Faeries searched the truck for the gas can.
    Jason puled Nelson over into a huddle with him and Kyle.
    “Dude,” he whispered to Nelson. “These guys are freaks. I’m not going to that place.” Kyle nodded in agreement. “Maybe we should go on to Nashvile instead.”
    “They’re not freaks,” Nelson whispered back. “They’re just gay people like us.”
    Jason roled his eyes. “Like you , maybe. I’m not going with them.”
    “Here you are.” Horn-Boy brought the gas can to Jason.
    While they poured it in, Nelson puled Kyle aside. “Would you chil your boyfriend, please? I want to see this place.” Kyle glanced over at Lady-Bugger flapping his cape mothlike in front of the headlights. “Are you sure these guys are safe?”
    “Kyle, they’re Faeries . What’s the worst that can happen? They tie us up and perm our hair?” Kyle didn’t laugh. His eyes shifted among Horn-Boy, Lady-Bugger, Jason, and back to Nelson before he finaly said, “Okay, I’l talk to him.” Nelson decided not to take any chances. When Jason finished pouring the gas and Horn-Boy said, “So, are you guys going to folow us?” Nelson told him, “Yeah, but can I ride with you?”
    “Dude!” Jason hissed, but Nelson was already climbing into the truck cab, teling Horn-Boy, “Those horns are so cool.” He took a seat between the two guys and watched to make sure Kyle and Jason folowed behind. As the pickup roled down moonlit valeys and wound around blue hils, Lady-Bugger and Horn-Boy explained how Faeries existed al over the world, some in live-in communities like the sanctuary. Nelson listened eagerly, imagining a place where no one hassled you for being crazily queer, a place where you could be totaly yourself.
    After a while Lady-Bugger turned down a dirt road. Each time the truck bounced, Horn-Boy’s leg gently bumped Nelson’s knee and Nelson let it stay there. The touch was the biggest thril Nelson had gotten since Jeremy. In fact, Horn-Boy’s little goatee reminded him of Jeremy’s and how the hairs had tickled when they kissed.
    “So … like … are you two a couple?” Nelson asked.
    Horn-Boy and Lady-Bugger gazed across Nelson at each other. Then Lady-Bugger winked at Nelson. “Mostly.” Horn-Boy folowed with a mischievous grin, which looked even more impish with the horns atop his head. “We have an open relationship.”
    “Wow,” Nelson said. He realized he sounded like a kid, but he’d never met anyone in an open relationship.
    A lantern appeared on the dark road ahead of them, iluminating someone in white face paint and a shimmering red kimono. The figure gave a silent bow, welcoming them into a parking area, and Lady-Bugger explained, “That’s Yoko Kim-Ono.” Jason parked Nelson’s car alongside the truck, while Nelson climbed from the cab to see a half-dozen guys, ranging in age from late teens to sixties, giggling and chattering.

    “Wel, hey, cuties,” said one in a pink miniskirt and cowboy boots.
    “Welcome to Faerie Land,” said another in overals and high heels.
    Nelson’s skin tingled as if electrified. Ever since he was little, he’d loved to dress up, whether as a pirate, a sheik, or in his mom’s gowns and heels.
    “Isn’t this place great?” He spun around excitedly to Kyle and Jason, only to find them pressed so nervously together they almost looked like conjoined twins.
    “You guys want to find something to wear?” Horn-Boy asked, and led the boys past log cabin homes to a barn filed with dresses, skirts, and shoes. While Kyle and Jason watched, Horn-Boy held a black leather vest up to Nelson. “Take your shirt off and try this on.” Nelson hesitated to remove his shirt, confiding in a smal voice, “My chest is too skinny.”
    “Naw!” Horn-Boy winked and smiled. “Skinny guys are cute.” He persuaded Nelson and puled him in front of a mirror. “See? You look great. Now how about a skirt?”
    Nelson picked

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