From that night on, Stoney and Hud burned up the beds every night in Hud’s hotel suite, until one night Hud’s curious gaze strayed toward the scars, wondering just what had happened. He’d hesitated to talk to Stoney about it up to now, but he felt like it was something they needed to discuss if he was going to help him. He just hoped in bringing it up, he didn’t cross over some invisible line.
“You never told me how your face got messed up like that.”
“It’s not something I like to talk about, let alone remember.”
“I understand that, but I’d like to know if you don’t mind telling me.”
“I was helping out a friend of mine in his dad’s diner when he managed to catch the eye of this guy he’d been watching for a long time. The guy asked him out, but he couldn’t meet him because he was stuck
