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Marvin

As Whizzer and I are staying up late studying, I tell him more about my encounter with Trina. I also explain a bit about Mendel, since I don't think they've met yet. He listens, although I think we're both extremely tired.

"So are you two talking now?"

"What? No. It was just one encounter. You know I don't want to talk to her again," I sigh. "On the other hand, I feel like she deserves an explanation."

"And explanation for what?" Whizzer asks.

"About you. And our breakup."

"Just let it go, Marvin," he mutters, running his hand through his hair. "We need to keep working. Trina can wait."

I nod. We haven't gotten much studying done, and it's already after midnight. We're in my dorm, which is barely big enough to fit the two of us (although to be fair, his apartment isn't much bigger.) I just want to go to bed, but I'm already falling behind in my classes, and I don't want to give Mendel the chance to counsel me.

"Maybe we could just do something else?" I suggest, raising my eyebrows. Whizzer laughs and looks down at his textbooks.

"Marvin, we can't just keep on putting it off. I'm already going to get about four hours of sleep tonight. I don't want to make it less than that."

I sigh. "Fine."

After a few more minutes of studying, Whizzer falls asleep at my desk. I can't help rolling my eyes, because he's been the one insisting we should stay up and do our work, but I get that he's tired. I go to my bed and throw my pillow at him. He doesn't wake up.

So what do I do? Just leave him here and sleep in my bed? It sounds weird, but we've never slept in the same room before so I don't really want to do that. I can probably go to his apartment and ask Cordelia let me stay. But that would be weird too. Maybe I just won't sleep.

Whizzer lifts his head a moment later and stares at me. "What?"

"Nothing," I answer quickly. "Go back to sleep."

I can't sleep myself, so I get up and walk around the hallway for a bit. Even though I told him to go back to sleep, Whizzer comes out. "What are you doing?" he asks.

"I said to go back to sleep."

"I'm not tired."

"Then study."

He walks out of the doorway and closes my door. "I don't feel like studying," he answers simply. That's fair. I don't feel like it either. Whizzer sits down and leans against the wall. "I'm bored."

"Me too." I'm walking in circles around the hallway, because there's nothing better to do. When I stop, I can see Whizzer staring at me again. "What?"

"Are you a virgin?"

I scoff. "Why would you even suggest that? I had a girlfriend for a year."

"But you're also gay," he reminds me.

"NO, WHIZZER, I'M NOT A VIRGIN."

Someone who lives down the hall from me opens their door to see what's going on. I look away and pretend I don't know what's happening either. Actually, to be honest, I don't. When did a conversation about studying turn into the question of whether or not I'm a virgin? Also, why did Whizzer fall asleep twice?

I don't talk again until the door is closed. "Why is this even a conversation? Are you a virgin?" Why didn't we discuss this back at the beginning of our relationship? Would that have been too weird? I wish we had so it wouldn't be as weird now.