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

“What are we going to do about Cliff?” I ask him, holding him against me after we make love.


I have to ask him this. It’s something we musttalk about. Another reality check in the mess we’ve created. A responsibility that must be carefully tended to, like a garden of pesky weeds or moles or snails. It’s his seventh visit in the last eight days and, I’m sure, Cliff is beginning to question Darsey’s whereabouts. Our bodies are semi-covered by the freshly washed cotton sheet on my bed. We pant, sticky and sweaty. Spent. All we do is make love, eat, watch TV, talk, and laugh together. Sometimes we read passages of Pride and Prejudicetogether, which we both love.


“I don’t know,” he huffs, needing oxygen.


Chapter 21