Chapter 17

“Hang on. I’ll ask Tammy.”

Jay didn’t want to impose on his friends, but he needed a few days to process Drake’s rejection. Before he’d been given that brief look into what it could be like for them he’d been willing to just be Drake’s neighbor and friend. But everything changed when Ross told him Drake thought him pathetic. And then with the sex from yesterday, well, Jay didn’t know that he could just go on being Drake’s pathetic, lonely neighbor. The thought of running into Drake in the hallway or the parking lot made his stomach do flips.

His rent was month to month, so maybe he could just think about moving to a new place. He’d have to give thirty days’ notice, but—

“Tammy says it’s all right with her. We’ve got the spare room, so it should be cool.”

He smiled or tried to, anyway. “Great. Thank you. I’ll try to stay out of your hair as much as possible.”