Of course, Ted is impulsive enough to choose ice cream for breakfast. The very idea of being with Ted like that should fill me with disgust. Gay sex “Come here.”He pulls me to his chest and I don’t resist.“Hi.” He says smiling, looking deep in my eyes. Ted, who always had my back, allegedly. “I’m going to rip his balls off and feed ‘em to him.”“Don’t,” I say. Maybe even better!”“I’d love that.”His smile could have reversed the sunset.Blackport is the most adorable coastal town in the country, and I will fight anyone who says otherwise. I hadn’t slept a second the night before Ted was due. My head snaps in his direction when he shares this information at dinner. It was wonderful at first: he doted on me. We were in the balcony that projected from master bedroom, our parents’ bedroom. “I want to understand why, why did you just disappear like that?”“I felt worthless,” he says after a pause. I love you. “Okay, how about I make it up to you by taking your sexy ass to Blackport tomorrow? I also didn’t worry: graduation was coming up and he’d be home again!“Ted joined the army,” Mom said matter-of-factly one evening over dinner.
