Chapter 6

Our eyes were starting to adjust to the

darkness, and we could actually see the waitress and the inside of

the restaurant. The waitress was pretty, but the restaurant was as

bad as I had imagined. Of course the bathroom was the one room that

was well lit. There were two stalls and three urinals. I hated that

awkward time with new guy friends. How are we going to do this? I

made a decision and walked to the middle urinal. Then they could

choose where they went. Derek walked up to the urinal on one side

of me. Wyn used the other one. So we were already getting pretty

comfortable.

As I mentioned, The Cove is not the

swankiest place on the planet. This lack of swank was most evident

in the lack of partitions between the urinals. There were brackets

where partitions had once been, but the rust on the brackets clued

me in to the fact that those partitions had been missing for quite

some time. I tried to look ahead, but out of the corner of my eye I