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“It’s a rental!” Max hollered, nowhere in sight.
Bro must have the hearing of a bat.
“I’d like to see things from his point of view,” Kruger muttered. “But I can’t get my head that far up my ass.”
“Your friends always like this?” Arsen mused.
“Always.” I confirmed.
“How about I take you to get sheets tomorrow?”
“Is that what people do on dates?”
His eyebrows arched. “You’ve never been on a date?”
My lips curled in.
“Hey,” he said, reaching out to touch me, then dropping his hand and glancing quickly toward my friends who were still insulting each other in the back of the moving truck. “I’m glad I’ll be your first.”
I nodded.
“And no. Sheet shopping will be after the date.”
I didn’t know why, but that sent my mind to dirty, dirty places.
“Prism, get over here,” Rush called.
“I have to go,” I told him.
He nodded. “I’ll see you tomorrow, princess.”
I went to help my friends carry in the new king-size bed I’d purchased. Hey, go big or go home. The entire time, I listened to Arsen’s engine start up and fade into the distance.
After making it to my new room, we set down the mattress so I could put together the frame. Before getting to work, I went to the window, which looked out over the front yard and street.
The black wagon was long gone, but still, I looked.
“I saw you holding hands,” Kruger said behind me. I glanced over my shoulder, and he made a soft noise. “They went to grab the headboard.”
Nodding, I grabbed the pieces of the bedframe. “I think I’m going to tell everyone I’m gay.”
Kruger was quiet a moment. In that small chord of silence, doubt and anxiety chewed on my belly. Then my best friend nodded. “I’ll support you, bro. Of course I will. And you know Elite will support you too.”
“But?” I said, knowing he wasn’t done.
“But are you sure this is what you want?”
“Arsen didn’t ask me to do this,” I declared.
“He didn’t?”
I shook my head. “He asked me on a date.”
“A date.” The echo was sort of void of any kind of emotion, and I looked at him, trying to gauge his reaction. “You want to go?” he asked.
I nodded.
“You don’t have to come out to your friends to go on a date,” he pointed out.
