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Nelson danced around the room, plucking clothes from drawers and tossing them onto the queen-size bed while Kyle neatly folded them.
    “How much are you taking?” Kyle asked. “There’s not going to be any room for Jason’s stuff.”
    “Good.” Nelson grinned. “The less clothes he wears, the better.”
    Kyle did not return Nelson’s grin.
    “Just kidding, Kyle. That’s why I need you—to help me decide what to take. It’s hard being a supermodel.” While Kyle sorted out priority piles (definitely, maybe, and why this?), Nelson kept tossing stuff on the bed in between phoning friends to say good-bye.
    Around nine o’clock Jeremy came over. So far he’d been the only boy Nelson could claim to actualy have dated during his otherwise patheticaly love-lacking life.
    But Jeremy was HIV positive and Nelson was HIV negative. They’d both decided the difference in status was too big an issue between them, but they also liked each other too much to stop being friends. And at moments Nelson wondered if they stil couldn’t somehow make a relationship work.
    Now Jeremy handed Nelson a gift-wrapped box. “I tried to think of something just right for your drive through the sunny South.” Nelson tore off the wrapping and opened the box, revealing a vintage pair of sparkling 1950s women’s cat’s-eye sunglasses. “Woo-hoo!” Nelson jumped up and down, snapping his fingers. “Multi-multi snaps!” He put them on and smacked Jeremy a kiss. “What do you think, Kyle?” Kyle glanced over from the piles of neatly folded clothes he’d organized. “I think they go great with your hair. The rednecks wil love them.” Nelson gazed into the mirror, admiring the union of pink and green. “They do, don’t they?” Near midnight Kyle finaly convinced Nelson that no more of his stuff would fit into the car, and Jeremy yawned that he needed to go home.
    Both Nelson and Kyle hugged him good-bye, then Kyle unroled his sleeping bag beside Nelson’s bed.
    “You don’t have to sleep on the floor,” Nelson told him. “You can sleep with me. Atticus can sleep on the floor.” Atticus was Nelson’s black Labrador, currently lying on the bed.
    “I want to try out my sleeping bag,” Kyle replied. “I don’t mind.”
    “Whatever,” Nelson said, a little disappointed. When Kyle returned from the bathroom in his pajamas, Nelson had stripped down to his underwear and was puling them off.
    “Nelson, what’re you doing?”
    “Sleeping nude, like I always do.”
    “Since when?”
    “Um, a while,” Nelson said. “You can too if you want. I don’t mind.”
    He’d seen Kyle in his underwear before, but had always been curious to take things to the next level.
    “No, thanks,” Kyle said, climbing into his sleeping bag.
    “Oh, Kyle. You’re such a prude.” Nelson fel into bed beside Atticus. “I guess it’s just you and me, pup. Our last night together.” But Atticus jumped to the floor, curling up next to Kyle’s sleeping bag.
    “Hey, where are you going?” Nelson protested.
    “I set the alarm for seven,” Kyle said, turning off the light. “Good night.”
    “Hey, Kyle?” Nelson whispered across the dark. “You think Jeremy and I could somehow make things work?”
    “I think you should move on to someone else,” Kyle whispered back.
    “Yeah,” Nelson said sarcasticaly. “Al those hunky guys knocking down my door are starting to wear me out.” Kyle yawned. “You’l find someone.”
    Nelson closed his eyes, thinking about the trip, and wondered, Will I?

chapter 10
    Next morning Kyle woke an hour before the alarm, too excited to sleep longer. He was about to spend the next two weeks with his boyfriend!
    On the bed Nelson puffed sleepy breaths in harmony with Atticus. Kyle roled his sleeping bag into a neat bundle, grabbed his clothes, and padded quietly down the hal to shower.
    When he emerged from the bathroom, Mrs. Glassman’s bedroom door had opened. Already dressed, she propped the last of a