On the rugby field Wayne Joslin might be tough and rough, but in the romance department he’s a pussy cat. He can’t keep his attention away from his close friend Darsey Haas, the center for the Templeton Thundercats. Darsey’s a dreamboat, and the guy of Joslin’s dreams. Someone he wants to spend the rest of his life with. The two must be together.<br><br>After five months of friendship, Joslin and Darsey steer out of the friend zone. There’s one problem, though. A huge problem. Darsey has a boyfriend, Cliff McGregory.<br><br>Cliff despises everything about Joslin and will do just about anything to keep him away from Darsey. Joslin’s in love with Darsey, though, head over heels, and believes they’re meant to be together. So he hatches a plan to distract Cliff with a certain rugby player named Tomas Iron. Will the plan work?

We Are Going to Be Together

It’s around eight in the evening when I get home from Toby’s High Life. Fresh snow falls from the heavens. It’s nothing sharp or chaotic; a fine snow with no accumulation. I park in the drive, find my way inside the Colonial, and unwrap layers of thick, winter clothes. Once inside I begin to settle into my evening. Pride and Prejudiceand a cup of coffee wait for me; the total comfort of a single man. It’s such a long novel, but exhilarating; one of my favorites.


The house is cold, so I turn up the heat. In doing so, punching numbers into the digital, Westinghouse thermometer, I hear someone sneeze upstairs, which scares the be-Jesus out of me. The sneeze is familiar, though: loud, echoing, masculine, disguised in a hearty cough. Fear evaporates and a selfish smile covers my face. I don’t know why I call up the stairs, “Darsey, what are you doing here?”


“Too late for that! Just get up here!”


Chapter 19