Page 35 of Best Friends, Tennessee

I also wanted to come, now.

I cleared my throat. “So,” I said. “Uh. How about this weather?”

Ori laughed softly.

“Finn, I’m telling you, don’t think too much about it,” he said. “Just a natural occurrence, like I said.”

My head was spinning. It was like I’d discovered a secret passageway in a house. Like something that had always been there, but that I’d never known was even apossibility.

I let my eyes glance over his body, looking at him in a way I never had before. I felt like I was drunk, even though I hadn’t had any liquor.

When I looked at him, especially at his eyes in the glow of the fire, I was getting the same little urges I got when I really wanted to kiss a pretty girl.

His features were delicate like that. His lips were plush, in the same way I liked on girls, but I’d never really registered that fact. His skin looked so soft.

I shook my head, like I was trying to shake myself from sleep.

No.

Fuck no.

I wasn’t going to do this anymore.

I was done pretending like this wasn’tOri, right next to me.

I was just going to be real with him.

“Okay,” I said, breaking the tension. “Do you think it’ll be less awkward if we both just come?”

I looked over at him at the same moment he looked at me.

“You’re out of your fuckin’ mind,” Ori said. “You know that?”

“Might be,” I said. “Don’t care.”

He swallowed. “Finn,” he said, a question in his tone.

“It doesn’t have to be weird. I won’t look over, if you don’t want me to. But you know how it kind of feels freeing when you go take a piss in the forest? Maybe it’ll be like that.”

“You want us to jerk off next to each other and you think it’ll be like pissing in the wilderness while camping?” Ori asked. “Damn. Night Camp has really changed a lot since we were kids.”

I laughed, reaching down to feel the outline of my cock through my shorts. “You know what? I don’t give a fuck if it’s weird. I’m down to do it if you are.”

God, please say yes?

My heart was pounding hard in my chest. I did kind of feel crazy, honestly, but the weird thing about Ori was that I always felt like I could say anything to him. My most outlandish thoughts and ideas.

“You won’t do it,” Ori said.

“Pretty sure I will.”

He was giving me the most doubtful look I’ve ever seen. “There’s no shot in hell you’re actually down to come, right next to me.”

I wanted to say one thing to him:wanna fuckin’ bet?But I held back.

“I’ll do it right now,” I told him. “Like I said, as long as you’re not uncomfortable. I want to come, you want to come…”

“And you won’t tease me with this forever, saying you got me hard and being all egotistical about it?”

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