Chapter 8
It was late when Frank got back to the dorm. Mark was already asleep. Frank tried to get undressed and into bed as quietly as possible. He didn’t want to extinguish the glow he was feeling by waking Mark. Mark would ask questions. Frank would have to explain why dinner had taken so long, and why he was getting back at this hour. Somehow having to make up excuses for the wonderful time he’d had with Bill didn’t feel right. It was his first inkling of what keeping his secret relationship with Bill was going to be like.
Bill had dropped him off some distance from the dorm, explaining once more his need to be careful of exposure. It seemed now that they had actually begun a relationship, he was more fearful of being found out—as if people would be able to sense it, just from their
