Chapitre 16: Chapter 16

Tim growled and cuffed Paul’s head, but his growl was really a laugh and his cuff was a more a caress. “Just don’t you go falling in love with any of them.”

* * * *

I didn’t need to burn his words into my memory. I’d been in love once, and this was where it had gotten me. Oh, hustling brought me decent money, and sometimes the john I was with even made sure I felt good. And it also got me Paul, who I loved like a brother, and the other boys, who I liked well enough. In another lifetime I would have been madly in love with Tim, who was sexy as hell, as well as a good man, but….

I’d never give my heart to anyone ever again.

4

Time passed. Days, weeks, months, and then all of a sudden it was September, 1991, and I’d been with them a year. We no longer lived in the tiny apartment Tim had first taken me to, although Paul and I still shared a bed. It wasn’t that the apartment wasn’t large; it was just there were a lot of boys.