Free Screwups by Jamie Fessenden Page A

him naked a lot lately, before bed and in the mornings, but he never got tired of looking. Jake wasn’t really “jacked,” as Danny had accused him of when they first met, but he was definitely well-defined and muscular, his pale skin making him resemble a Greek statue carved out of marble—except for patches of red hair in interesting places.
    The comparison to a marble statue was apropos in another way was well, since it turned out the only guy present who seemed to have a problem keeping his erection in check was Jake. Well, Paul might have had trouble, but nobody could tell, thanks to the pillow. But Jake’s was right out there on display. Considering how chronically shy he’d been about showering a few weeks ago, he no longer seemed to give a damn. He smiled shyly when the girls teased him about it, but he made no move to cover himself. And that made it very hard for Danny to keep himself under control.
    They pooled their money and ordered four large pizzas and three two-liter bottles of soda. They debated flashing the pizza delivery guy, but if one of the guys did it, they’d be brought up on sexual harassment charges. Holly argued that one of the girls might be able to get away with it, but ultimately Danny and Jake dressed for a few minutes to go out and retrieve the pizzas from the end of the hall.
    They did, however, all end up streaking through the dorm in a long conga line—all but Paul—which horrified the people in the downstairs lounge who were trying to watch Blue Velvet for the tenth time. Somebody fetched Sonny, who put on his best stern-parent voice and ordered them back to their rooms if they didn’t want to be written up. But he was having so much trouble keeping a straight face they obeyed more because the novelty had worn off and they were getting cold than for fear of disciplinary action.
    Overall, though it had consisted of little more than eating pizza and enjoying being naked around other people, the party was declared a huge success. Wallace and Kevin seemed to have been hoping for some kind of orgy to break out, but they were willing to call the party “fun” even when that didn’t happen.
    Jake remained naked while their friends all dressed and left, and since he clearly didn’t care, Danny stayed naked too.
    “You still look ready for action,” Danny teased as he picked up the pizza boxes their friends had kindly left scattered all over the floor.
    Jake had sprawled out on his own bed, and now he raised his head to look down at his disobedient erection. “The stupid thing won’t go down.”
    “Must be all those hot naked girls you were surrounded by,” Danny replied. He didn’t bother hiding the sarcasm in his voice.
    Jake didn’t rise to the bait. All he said was “Must be.”
    Danny decided he didn’t need to be a jerk about it. He was getting a nice view of a gorgeous man with an erection. He might as well just appreciate it. Jake could decide to come out or not as he saw fit.
    After the pizza boxes had been cleared out of the center of the room, he tried to make some kind of order out of his bed. People had been sitting on both his and Jake’s beds all night, so the blankets were all messed up. But the big thing was his pillow. He picked it up and noticed a dark pube on it. Yay. Not knowing why he was stupid enough to do so, he took a tentative whiff of the pillowcase. Yep. That was crotch smell all right. Not really bad, but knowing it had been Paul’s crotch, he decided against resting his face on it. He stripped the pillowcase off and turned to pull a new one out of his drawer.
    That’s when he caught sight of Jake lying on his bed, watching him and… jerking off.
    Okay, are we going to pretend straight guys do that now?
    Jake wasn’t going full at it. He was just holding himself and slowly moving his hand back and forth. But it wasn’t subtle enough to fool anyone into thinking he was just scratching himself or something. Now that Danny was looking directly