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obedient sip of his own with a little happy 'mm.'
    Julian paused to have some of his own tea. "Not sneaky, just thinking ahead," said Julian. "Did you see how well Chudleigh got along with Geoff?"
    Alex chuckled. "Oh, yes, that was clever of you," he said, kissing Julian's hair. "Lucas needs to visit us more, and vice versa, even if he doesn't end up nesting with our good doctor."
    Julian yawned and drank his tea a little faster. "Whitby and Grover looked well, too," he said, letting the last of the day's energy drain away and leave him tiredly happy. "Everyone did."
    "It's too bad Jones couldn't bring Jenny, but he was glad for the excuse for a night off. He's been driving Victor around nonstop to all those stupid social things," said Alex.
    They sipped their tea and talked about their friends and family, and eventually settled under the covers and into sleep. It had been a wonderful party, but now it was over, and tomorrow would be a new day, leading to a new year, and to the rest of their lives.

 
    ABOUT THE AUTHOR
     
    Amy Crook has made her living for the past 15+ years with art and design. She lives in San Leandro, CA, with two cats, a roommate, and a pair of custom-made tentacle pillows. She's a dilettante geek and non-practicing goth. That means that she loves in-jokes and things with skulls on them, she tends not to go too deep into most geeky pursuits, and she rarely dresses up as a Goth (though she does use her purple tentacle parasol to ward off the sun). Strangers stop her on the street to tell her that her hair is long. She loves tea and gin, and she hates it when the trees try to have sex in her sinuses. She's a real geek girl, for certain values of “real,” “geek,” and “girl.”
    Julian and Alex are from my two novels, The Courtship of Julian St. Albans and its sequel, The Apprenticeship of Julian St. Albans.