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“No.”

“I haven’t even said anything.”

“I know that tone.”

“I just think it’s cute that you’re following me into the showers.”

“I’m following the indoor plumbing,” he countered.

“Mhmm, and my ass.”

“And soap.” Darius brushed past so he wouldn’t be tempted to continue staring at me.

“You always know how to kill the romance,” I whined as he picked up his pace.

He was nearly to the fork, his ass already hard to track despite those fine sculpted buns I could spot a mile away.

“You’re no fun!” I called after him.

“I’m exactly enough fun to prevent you from getting us arrested. Again.”

“Oh, right. See? That’s why I keep you around.”

“I was under the impression you kept me around because you never learned how to leave me alone.”

I smiled to myself. He wasn’t wrong. Not then. Not now. Not ever.

Inside the showers, everything felt… hot. Dee was soaping himself up with my bodywash, and I found myself leaning in to sniff him.

“Alvin, there’re so many other open bays. Why did you choose the showerhead right fucking next to mine?”

I snorted and reached forward while he was distracted by the soap in his face. “How could I braid your pretty hair if I was on the other side of the room?”

Darius didn’t get my meaning for a second, but then he must have felt the pulling because he gasped and slapped my hand away from his curly pubes.

“There’s something seriously wrong with you!” he huffed, and I grinned.

“Hmm. Your dick didn’t seem to think so, DeeDee. In fact, he’s giving me a standing ovation.”

“Alvin, I’m not above punching you in the face. Get away from me.”

I found myself drooling at the sight of my former best friend/secret, not-so-secret lover growing harder in front of my eyes.

Before I could really enjoy him, however, he tried to squeeze past me.

“Mm, fuck!” I couldn’t tell you who moaned louder when the tips of our dicks brushed together with his hasty attempt at escaping, but I was rock fucking hard now.

“Don’t even think about it...” he hissed between clenched teeth.

And I couldn’t so much as breathe long after he left my ass alone in the steamy shower. His words floating around me like the steam while inviting the sweetest of challenges.

CHAPTER 6

Iclosed my eyes and took a deep breath, nearly tripping over a fucking root on the way from the showers over to our assigned counselor cabin. The stupid tree names mocking me along the way.

I thought they were fun as a kid. I thought all the nonsense we did out here was fun as a kid. Now, I thought it was a big fucking joke life was playing on me. Like any second, someone was gonna jump out of the bushes and tell me I was being punked. That none of it was real. That I had imagined it all…

I looked down and let out another long sigh. I knew I hadn’t. My dick was still hard, nearly popping out of the shorts I’d changed into in the locker room, and I didn’t even have the luxury of having somewhere private to jerk off. I also didn’t trust where my mind would go if I tried.