Savages

85

Should be awkward (What did we do last night?!) in the morning but it isn’t.

It’s EZ.

Happy cool.

Chon rolls out first. Goes out on the deck and does his push-ups. Ben still sleepy-warm in the bed. He gets up a few minutes later, hears the shower running and O singing some tune off the radio.

They gather around the breakfast table.

Grapefruit, sliced mango, black coffee.

O smiling happily.

The boys quiet until Ben looks across the table at Chon, holds his thumb and index finger a millimeter apart, and says, “We’re that close to being gay.”

They laugh for half an hour.

Collective dicks.