I hate him. “Theo.” A f*****g whine, replaying in my head again and again. The hitch of his breath when I push into him, the tremble of his legs, the way he bites his lip when he’s feeling good—I hate it. Every night, I’m tormented by Phillip f*****g Echavarria. “Keep . . . going.” A week. One f*****g week. “Please, Theo.” My body is hot. Painfully hard. And every morning, my boxers are ruined. Like a f*****g curse. “Wait.” A gasp. I’m staring up at my ceiling, a useless poster of a girl who looks nothing like what I want. Who I crave. I just keep . . . touching myself. But it’s not what I want. Not satisfying. Not him. Never him. God, I want him. I want him so bad it hurts.

