Chapter 10: Day 16, NightSex. Him and Colby. Now. Now?
Those words didn’t go together. They orbited around Jason’s room and flew without settling, fantasy airships adrift and rudderless. They couldn’t contain what he thought he’d heard.
His toes dug into the rug. Gold and brown plushness didn’t help. Neither did his old pajama pants and worn white shirt. Everything incongruous: a forest-spirit room, Colby in the world’s tightest pair of jeans, Jason’s lurching unpreparedness.
Jason’s body announced that it could damn well be prepared. Every inch of him stood up and paid attention. Rock-hard. Ignoring all common sense about whatever Colby had actually said, which Jason’s d**k hadn’t comprehended correctly, hearing exactly what it wanted.
He scraped out, “You—you mean rehearse?” He might
