Chapter 9Jesse decided to skip lunch on Tuesday as a kind of atonement for all the bad stuff he’d been eating lately. Since it was ninety-four degrees outside, however, he spent the noon hour in the library instead of sitting on a bench or on the grass under a tree as he often did.
But he was unable to concentrate on his sociology text. His mind went back to the recent night when he and Ray had agreed that they were going to be exclusive, that they were confident enough about their relationship to be, at least for the moment, a couple. Jesse was both amused and pleased that Ray had been jealous of Casey. Amused because he and Ray had never discussed their relationship. Both of them had seemed content to take for granted that they’d be together when they could. It was mostly a weekend thin
