Free Rescuing Christmas by Jason Nichols Page A

interviewed me over the phone, he offered me the job. Anyway, I will be moving there next week and I hope that at some point we will see each other and at least can become friends. I would like to be the type of friends we were back when we were only eight years old, but I will understand if you are no longer interested in being friends.
    Hope to see you soon and with all of my love,
    Christopher Jeremiah Anderson
    Kevin took the letter from Jamie’s still trembling hands and handed him another one, from the very first box. Chris put his hands over the top of Jamie’s and waited until he looked up at him.
    When he did Chris said, “I have to go to work, but I want you to keep reading the letters or do something, anything that would keep a smile on your face. Just don’t be unhappy please. I will tell you what happened with the letters and all of that later when I get home. I love you.”
    Jamie could only nod and hold his face up for Chris to kiss before he walked out of the house and headed off to work.
    Jamie looked down at the letter in his hands and pulled the piece of paper out. It was one of those types of paper kids use to practice writing letters of the alphabet on.
    Jamie
    Mom and dad said I have to go with them and I can’t see you anymore. They won’t tell me why and I wish they would. When I get enough money saved up from the newspaper route I just got, I will run away and come live with you.
    Chris
    Jamie laughed and then began to sob as the letter fell to the floor. Kevin pulled him into his arms and held on to him letting him cry until he had nothing left.
    After that Jamie spent the rest of the day reading. Kevin read each letter after Jamie finished them and together the two of them spent the day blowing their noses and wiping their eyes and there was also a lot of laughter, light smiles and even anger over some of the things in the letters that were hurting Chris. Chris had tried desperately over the years to maintain contact with his best friend and the man he hoped to share his love and life with at some point. It was clear from all of the letters that Chris knew he was in love with Jamie and would stop at nothing to get to him, even if it meant at some point forcing a divorce on whatever woman Jamie had married if he had.
    At some point Chris had come home and gone to bed after kissing Jamie on the forehead and smiling down at him. Kevin and Jamie ate through a tray of cold cuts that Chris had sent out to them before he went to sleep.
    The next morning as Chris came downstairs he saw Jamie was reading the last letter and still awake, Kevin curled into a ball on the couch next to him, his head in his lap, snoring very gently with Jamie stroking his hair as he read. He put the letter down and stretched, disturbing Kevin who sat up and looked around.
    “Oh damn, what did I miss?” Kevin asked.
    “Just the last ten letters. I left them on the coffee table there for you. Here is the last one,” he said as he handed it to Kevin who put it at the bottom of the pile on the coffee table.
    Chris cleared his throat and they both looked up at him, smiling. Kevin stood up and stretched and said, “I need to take a piss.” He smiled and walked off leaving Chris and Jamie to greet each other.
    Chris said, “Did you actually stay up all night and read every single letter?”
    Jamie nodded and said, “I just couldn’t stop. Once I started, I felt like I was living your life as you tried to communicate with me.”
    Chris sat down next to him on the couch and said, “So, are you ready to hear the story now?”
    Nodding Jamie said, “Yeah. Just let me use the bathroom first and get some coffee in here.”
    Chris said, “Coffee, bacon and eggs are on the way already. Just go use the bathroom.”
    Jamie fled down the hall and into the small downstairs bathroom just as Kevin was coming out of it.
    Kevin walked over to the couch and sat down on Chris’s other side. “Man, it really sucks that all of this