CHAPTER ONE: THE PROPOSAL
There was a gentle wrap at the door frame. Ryan looked up and saw Nate stepping into his office.
"What's up Ryan, you said you needed help with something?" Nate smiled and waited to be invited in.
"Yeah Nate, I do. Come on in and close the door so my students don't know I'm here. They think us grad students are here only for them; that we don't have lives outside of their classes. We can get some work done in peace and quiet."
Nate closed the door and pulled up a chair in front of Ryan's desk. The room flooded red with the setting sun. Ryan's golden hair glistened around the edges where the red sunlight flowed into the room through the window behind him.
Ryan hesitated and shifted side to side in his chair. His cheeks flushed red as he started to speak. "Alright, so stick with me here. You have to promise to hear me out, listen to everything I have to say before you turn me down...if you turn me down."
"Okay." Nate replied, a little uncomfortable.
"We've been friends for a long time now, we do everything together. We troll the bars together, do our assignments together and do projects together. I'm going to go to a real personal place here. Can you promise me, that what I'm about to tell you and what I'm about to ask you is not going to affect us and our friendship at all? You are my best friend, I have to go forward with this now, but I don't want to lose you as a friend."
Nate was almost certain Ryan was shaking a little. He had never seen his friend so nervous – and they had run from the police together after a club got busted.
"Ryan you're my best friend. You can tell and ask me anything." Nate saw Ryan calm just a little, but his own unease increased.
"All right, here it is. Last night we were all at the bar and you were hitting on all the girls and I was having all the girls hitting on me. I realized that I had a lot of what you wanted, especially the girls hanging on my shoulders. How many times have we compared notes on the girl you just fucked the night after I had fucked her? I was wondering if you were getting tired of always being the second fuck. Then I started thinking how many girls we've shared this way. In my head, I pictured you and some petite girl with big tits making headboards smack walls; she was begging you to fuck her like I had the night before. I couldn't get the image out of my head. I mean I haven't even seen you with your shirt off and here I was having a vision of you buck naked plowing some girl I had been with. I was getting real hot."