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-Boys and Girls-

Ashley's a lesbian. That Aiden can live with. He's also pretty much cool with her having had a fling with him as a last hurrah with guys. Still, who plans on going and getting pregnant?

He can remember when she told him, holding the stick, in her cloyingly fancy house. He can remember the second thing she told him, later, this time with tears streaming.

"I'm sorry," was all Aiden could tell her. "I'm sorry." Over and over again, words falling on two pairs of deaf ears. And then they quit talking. Avoided each other's eyes in the hall. After all, Aiden was only a boy. Ashley was only a girl. That was less than okay, but that was how it all went down.

Until, of course, the Carlins moved to Los Angeles.

So the one guy, Clay, he's okay. Glenn's an ass, but apparently there are about four people on Earth who disagree with that.

Then there's Spencer.

Hopelessly unattainable, beautiful Spencer.

Aiden's waiting for the moment-he knows it's going to happen, it's just a matter of when-when he opens a door or turns a corner and it'll be Ashley and Spencer, Spence and Ash, slapping him right in the face with nothing for him to possibly misinterpret. Aiden wants Spencer to kiss him again sometime, wants her to want to be with him without a blood alcohol level over .1.

Yeah, so he's got a pretty good deal going anyway from where he stands. He's "one of the grrlz" or whatever. Ironic that if he did happen to be lacking a Y chromosome, he'd probably be scoring with Ashley and Spencer by now maybeevenatthesametime-

Wow. Where the hell did that come from?

Anyway, Aiden's your average guy. He's too good to rot on the bench, so Coach is thinking about moving him to shooting guard. He's actually getting used to Glenn Carlin. Wonders how good King'll be if they're both at the top of their games as much as possible.

Madison? Who the hell knows? She's a girl; he's a boy. He'll see.

Spencer and Ashley are going to hook up. He can feel it. He can sense it in the air. So he's not burning bridges-anywhere. Whatever, right? That's the Dennison way. Go with the flow.

Alhough, fact still remains that after he thinks about Spencer and/or Ashley-pretty much in any context-he's longing for a cold shower.

Or, very least, briefs.

Aiden's a lot of things. But he is just a boy.

How's he supposed to understand?