Free Rainbow Road by Alex Sanchez

Horn-Boy took Nelson’s hand, and Nelson wondered what had happened to Lady-Bugger. Was their relationship so open they parted ways that easily? Nelson appreciated how Horn-Boy had looked after them al evening and he definitely got Nelson horny, but Nelson couldn’t help worrying. Didn’t Lady-Bugger feel jealous and left out?
    Horn-Boy led them along a forest path toward the slowly beating drums. Ahead in the darkness, Nelson began to make out silhouettes of men and women gathered around the flames of a blazing fire, like a primal tribe—some drumming, some swaying, some sitting on boulders.
    As the boys stepped into a circle of several dozen Faeries, Nelson exclaimed, “This is so cool!”
    “You mean weird,” Jason muttered.
    A young woman welcomed them. “Hi. I’m Voluptuous Clorox. Want to sit?”
    She was conspicuously topless, except for a silver ring on her left boob. Nelson tended to get woozy at the sight of female breasts, but not Jason.
    “Thanks!” Jason told the girl, suddenly more enthused than he’d been al evening.
    As they sat beside her, Kyle whispered to Nelson, “What’s that burnt smel?”
    Nelson spotted a marijuana joint being passed around the circle. He’d tried pot before and liked how it made him laugh. It also made him even hornier, if such a thing was possible.
    But when Horn-Boy passed Nelson the joint, Kyle nudged him in the ribs. “Don’t! I think it’s marijuana!”
    “I hope so,” Nelson replied, taking the reefer.
    “Nelson!” Kyle reached out, trying to block him.
    “Kyle, you’re not my mom!” Nelson puled away. “Stop acting like her.”
    He inhaled a toke. The smoke irritated his throat, but he held his breath anyway. His lungs burned like fire til he finaly exhaled, trying not to cough.
    Kyle shook his head in disapproval and passed the joint at arm’s length past Jason, who was more preoccupied with seeing bare-breasted girls than with smoking weed.
    Nelson’s brain began tingling. After taking a couple of more hits off the circling reefer, he turned to Horn-Boy and burst out in uncontrolable giggles. The horns on his head suddenly looked so funny—and sexy. Really sexy. And al of a sudden Horn-Boy’s relationship with Lady-Bugger seemed irrelevant.
    “Hey.” Nelson raised his hand, fondling the horns and giggling. “You want to go walk in the woods?”
    “Sure.” Horn-Boy grinned, standing up in his pelt.
    “We’re going with you,” Kyle announced, yanking Jason away from Bare Boobs Girl.
    The sight of it sent Nelson howling with laughter, til he finaly calmed down enough to ask Kyle, “Why are you folowing us?”
    “Dude, because you’re totaly stoned,” Jason told him.
    “You are both so controling!” Nelson protested, but he couldn’t stop laughing. He wrapped his arms around Kyle and whispered, “I’m so wicked horny.” He gestured toward Horn-Boy. “And he is so cute.”
    Kyle leaned into Nelson’s ear. “Don’t! You’l end up doing something unsafe.”
    “Oh, Kyle! You’re worse than my freaking mother!”
    “Guys?” Horn-Boy stepped between them. “I’m going back to the fire.”
    “Don’t go!” Nelson begged, and then cracked up again as he watched Horn-Boy stride away. “Kyle? Why are you ruining my life? You and Jason have each other. I don’t have anyone!” He colapsed onto the dewy ground, wanting to cry but instead giggling. “Al I want is what you have. Why won’t you let me?” Kyle sat beside him, wrapping an arm around his shoulder. “You’re stoned. I don’t want you to get hurt.” Nelson gazed up into Kyle’s eyes, wanting more than anything to kiss those cute thin lips. But he wasn’t so stoned as to have forgotten the time he’d tried kissing Kyle and gotten shoved away.
    “I’m going back to the fire,” Nelson now announced, pushing himself off the ground.
    And Kyle folowed him, with Jason in tow.

chapter 16
    Kyle watched Nelson strip off his vest, toss it to the ground, and join the