Touching The Heart Of Ace (SAMPLE)

Chapter 19

Was he thinking about me?

Was he with his wife?

Was he looking for me?

It had been a week since but I still felt him in the parts he claimed as his.

"I can't believe Dr. Pudgy was a fucking sicko, man!" Rupert announced after arranging the living room.

My third home; had to find some ridiculous solution to throw my big baby off the hook.

Ned nodded gulping the water down in one go and spilling half of it on his shirt.

"We are going to crash in here. I cannot think of moving my body." Ned plopped down the floor, like a wet noodle.

I agreed. I was thankful even for the company.

"I still cannot believe Dr. Jones was fucking that freshman. Good riddance! Do you have anything to do with that, Mr. I-don't-need-skills-to-own-a-Bugatti?"

"Guys, stop!" I groaned into my palm.

They laughed.

"Come on, it is funny. Now we don't feel bad to mooch you off your food. But seriously? Did you do it?"

"No."

I did not. I did not have to. Robbie came to know of what happened.

The freshman issue was the only incident the college knew of, but Dr. Jones lost everything.

His wife left him along with his homophobic sons, he lost his house because there was some disperency in his mortgage, the college terminated him and his teaching licence was suspended until further notice, all in one week.

His losing job was my mom's doing, rest was all Robbie. I thought Robbie was feeling guilty because he was the one who landed me in trouble in first place. He let go of Dr. Jones easily.

But the students still thought it was my doing but the kid, Martin was thankful; the sicko was real sick.

Ding.

Done.

It was a text from Jason.

I was hiding again. What else could I do? I blinked away the burn on my eyes.

"Are you crying? Man, I was joking."

"Gods, no! Dust on my eyes."

"Yeah man, Ned you should clean your bedroom more often."

Yeah, I moved into Ned's apartment. There was no way he would find me here. If he tried to contact Ned, he would tell me.

"David, we have something to tell you. Please don't be angry at us."

I looked from Ned to Rupert to Ned back to Rupert.

"What?"

Did Robbie already contact them and this was a set up?

"We are boyfriends."

"Oh. Okay, for a sec... Wait. WHAT!!! WHEN? HOW?"

"Ummm, quite some time now, you have been kind of out of it lately, so we thought we kind of wait but now, you are moving in here and I am moving in with Ru, we kind of want to tell you now, are you kind of angry? Don't be angry at Ru, he told me we should but I kind of..."

"NO!!!"

"What? You don't accept us?"

"NO!!!"

"WHAT? I THOUGHT WE WERE FRIENDS."