They’d had a nice evening. Finn wouldn’t exactly have objected to more nice evenings.
God, was he that starved for contact and company that he’d just latched onto the first person who’d agreed to hang out with him?
Ithadbeen a long time. Even Oscar had started to nudge and hint that maybe Finn was due to go on a date. Just one. Just to make sure he still knew how to interact with humans.
All of which was said out of love and concern, Finn knew.
But hell, maybe hehadforgotten how to interact with humans.
Probably better not to hang all his hopes and dreams on the first one he saw. That was the same advice he gave to people looking to adopt a dog, so it likely applied even more when people were involved.
Dogs were way less complicated than people.
Maybe he should get a dog.
Dating wasn’t the kind of thing he should have been jumping right into, anyway. Because Oscar wasright—he’d gone so long without doing it that he was scared.
He’d had to hide behind being auctioned off for charity to even consider it, and then he’d been all business, and if Nolan had a thing for him atallhe’d probably gone away disappointed.
“Wow,” Ryan said. “Wherever your thoughts just went has to be dark.”
Finn blinked up at him, the train of thought trailing off into the distance. Just like his chance at having something resembling a love life again.
“I’m gonna die alone,” he said, which he was pretty sure was that particular train’s ultimate destination.
“Whoa, dark,” Oscar said. “Do you need a hug? Or a drink?”
“It’s nine in the morning,” Finn said. “And I have to do surgery when this cat comes in.”
“But you’ll take the hug?” Oscar asked hopefully.
“I’ll take the hug,” Finn agreed.
He sighed as Oscar wrapped his arms around him, the touch soothing.
Yeah, as it turned out, he needed a hug.
“You’re not gonna die alone. You’llalwayshave me,” Oscar said.
“And me,” Ryan added around a mouthful of cornflakes. “You’re family.”
“Thanks, guys,” Finn said, letting himself lean against Oscar and take the comfort being offered.
It wasn’t quite the same as the stomach-swooping romance Finn was missing in his life, but having friends was probably better than that, anyway.
