Chapter 6 The next afternoon after his test Lance walked back to the dorm. Josh was supposed to arrive around noon, and Lance was anxious to meet his roommate’s best friend. Justin talked about him so much Lance felt like he already knew him. When he reached the room, Lance could hear Justin inside laughing. Opening the door, he walked in and threw his backpack on the bed before turning to look at the young man seated on the floor next to the bed. “Lance, how was the test, man?” Justin looking up from his spot laying on the bed. “All right.” Walking over to the other person in the room, he reached out his hand. “You must be, Josh. I’m Lance.” Josh took the offered hand shaking it briefly. “It’s nice to finally put a face to the name. Justin is always talking about you. I’m glad he made a friend here so quickly. We were all worried about him and his transition.” Justin reached over and punched his friend in the arm. “Talking to my mom again, huh?” Josh lowered his head blushing. “Man, you know your mom. She called last night with her list of things to make sure I check on before coming back home.” “Dude, my mom needs to let me grow up. I’m doing fine, here. Right, Lance?” Lance looked over his shoulder from his seat at his desk. “Yep, he’s doing real good. I told his mom I wouldn’t let him get into trouble. Well, at least not too much anyway,” he said laughing. Josh looked back at Justin. “Do I even want to know?” Justin sighed. “Went to a couple of parties over at my friend Joey’s. We had some fun.” Pointing over in Lance’s direction, he continued, “I keep trying to set up Lance with some good looking chick, and he never lets me.” Lance quickly turned back to his desk opening up a random textbook lying on his desk. Josh looked at him for a second before turning back towards Justin. “So did Brit call you?” “Don’t even get me started on Brit,” Justin stood up and walked over to the bedroom door. “I’m going down to get a soda. Want anything?” Josh shook his head. Lance didn’t even turn around until Justin had left the room. His eyes following Justin out the door. They sat silent for a few moments before Josh spoke. “So, you’re gay, huh?” Lance turned around in his chair with a look of shock plastered on his face. “What?” “Oh, come on, Lance. I figured it out by just talking to you on the phone, man. The question of the moment is if you have told Justin about it yet?” “No, I haven’t, Josh. I was afraid if I told him I was gay he wouldn’t like me anymore.” Josh laughed. “Justin is far from homophobic. If he was, he wouldn’t still be friends with me.” “You’re gay.” Josh nodded his head. “And Justin is cool about it. You being gay is definitely not going to be an issue with him, man.” “Lance’s gay?” Justin stood in the doorway of the room holding two cans of soda. Lance lowered his head. He definitely had not wanted this to be the way for his roommate to find out. Lance stood up and without saying a word left the room. BACK MENU NEXT