Chapter 13

Nothing like a few good fuck buddies to pal around with—he never

goes back to the dorm alone. There’s always

someone…

I’m alone

now.

Yeah, well, now

doesn’t count, he tells himself, and for a brief second he actually

believes it. Then the pain flares in his groin again and he clasps

his hands over his lower belly as if that’s going to do any

good.I’m alone now, he thinks again,and in pain, and

where are my boys when I need them? Hell, look at what they got me

into. Whatever’s festering in me came from one of them, it had to,

shit like that doesn’t just crop up on its own. And here I am

thinking Wesley should give up his meal ticket for this?The way it felt in the bathroom, like pissing

shattered glass, he wouldn’t wish that on anyone.

Closing his eyes, he remembers the

worried look his roommate gave him last night when he mentioned he

might have to see a doctor. “What for?” Matt wanted to know. He

stood in front of his dresser, folding away clean laundry that had