I slept hard after collapsing back into bed and I barely noticed when Jess kissed my forehead as she left in the morning.
I had not slept well but fortunately didn't have much to do in the morning. I was a mess and I knew it.
I stayed in my room longer than I really wanted to. I even help my morning pee so long I nearly pissed myself. I didn't want to run into Mark or any of my other roommates. I was just too embarrassed.
When I did finally come out, of course I ran smack dab into Mark. It seemed like he was waiting to talk with me.
"Dude, I've got to piss so badly. Just give me a minute!" I begged him, navigating around him to get into the bathroom.
Why the fuck would he want to talk to me? Is he wanting to tell me Jess is no longer mine? That he owns her pussy now, and I'm just going to have to deal with it. But as I let out that tremendous gusher of held back urine, I realized that Mark didn't look like I'd expect someone who be all cocky and staking his claim on my woman. Hell, he looked concerned.
I finished my piss and I sucked it up to face him.
Mark is a big guy. While not exactly the athlete that Jacen is, he was seriously built, tall, and stocky. I know he worked out two or three times a day, but I knew that it was very much a recreational thing, nothing quite like the regiment Jacen had to go through. Mark is also very WASPy. That is, he is as average a white guy as they come, although he is good looking. If Jacen reminded me of Grant Hill or Vince Carter, Mark was like Henry Cavill or Chris Evans. The dude pulled women is what I'm saying. So if he wanted to smack me a round, the Andrew Garfield type that I was, he could handle me easily.
When I came out of the bathroom, he gave me a sheepish smile and pointed back into my room.
I went into it and he followed me in and closed the door. Well, here it comes.
"Darren, I am so freaking sorry dude. I feel fucking terrible."
What the shit?
"I'm sorry, what?"
"Dude, I know you saw us. At least, Jess said you did. I was one hundred percent thinking with my dick when she came to me and asked me to do and say those things."
"What?"
"Yeah. She came to my room in the middle of the night. She said I could fuck her, but I had to say some shit. She said you know and are into her fucking other guys. Normally, I wouldn't believe a girl who told me something like that but..."
"But what?"
"You know half the campus thinks she's fucking Jacen Summers, right?" he said, obviously uncomfortable saying so, "They also say you know about it and either don't care or you get off on it somehow. I heard this guy Jeff suggest that you're such a basketball fan that you are having her fuck him so he performs better for the team."
Oh my god.
"But Hannah Chapman says she knows Jess and she says you're just in an open relationship and that you have actually watched them."
Hannah is kind of a friend of Jess's. Not close, but I think she might have been who Jess was supposed to meet at the party we first met at. She's that chick who wears retro clothing all the time.
"Any way, I did what she asked because, I mean, damn Darren she is seriously hot. But after I did it and she told me you actually saw us and heard what I was saying... I felt terrible. You've always been a good guy. Invited me to room here, you've helped me with homework. It just didn't sit right with me. I worried that she was manipulating me to hurt you or to just get some sex. It's kind of twisted, you know?"
I held up my hand just to get him to stop his confessional. I took in a couple of breaths and let me thoughts catch up to me.
"Mark, it's ok, man. Seriously. I know it's fucked up, but she's such a... handful. She's worth it and I actually love her. But she's always been honest with me that she just needed to fuck, with a wide variety of guys. Shit, and girls."
"Really?"