I was so shocked that my mouth was hanging open. It was always a taboo to talk about Roger and Simon's living situation when neither one was present, and Maurice had broken it big time. "What the Hell Maurice!?" I exclaimed wide-eyed. "Could you be any more inappropriate!?"
"Sorry." He whispered, rubbing the back of his neck. "I was just wondering. He spends a lot of time with him, and he let him move in to his apartment." He said as he started playing with one of the pillows. "I mean come on. This is Roger we're talking about and he hates any human interaction if it's not with you." I leaned back rubbing my face. "I didn't mean to stress you out more. Sorry." Maurice leaned back with me.
"Look, I don't know what he does in his free time, but I'm pretty sure that they're not 'banging'." I said, putting the work in air quotes. "Maybe we should change the subject, 'cause this is just too weird talking about." I said.
Maurice shrugged. "What's the big deal. It's just sex." I threw him a dirty look. "What? We've all done it. It's no secret what you and Ralph do behind closed doors." He smirked at me. "I'm no saint myself. There was Ruth, Josh, that one guy at..."
"Maurice!" I shouted interrupting him. "I don't want to hear about any of your sexual partners. Also what you think Ralph and I do, should never leave you mouth!" Usually when he gets like this I would go hang with Ralph, but that's not an option now, so instead I went back to hiding in my room. I pulled out my phone and checked my messages. One was from Robert asking if Ralph was ok. Maurice must have texted him, informing him of what had happened. The other one was from Ralph.
"I've been knocked out almost all day -.-. No way can I sleep. Do u Skype? Brianna gave me the password to "my" laptop." After reading the text, I dug under my bed and pulled out my computer. Login on, I quickly opened my Skype. Ralph was online and I opened a chat with him.
*Hey. Yes I do have a chat. Lol. :)* I typed out.
*Jack?* He replied.
*Yeah.* I sent back before leaning back against my headboard. The next thing I knew, Ralph had requested a video chat and I hit "accept".
"Hey Jack." Ralph said resting against a pillow. "Why'd it take so long for you to reply?" He asked biting the inside of his cheek.
"My room-mate, Maurice, ordered a pizza and I went to steal a slice." I said flicking on the side table lamp to brighten the room. "Have you eaten anything today?" It made me a bit nervous, because he has gotten so busy before that he actually forgot to eat.
"Yeah. Brianna made a pot of soup and brought me up a bowl." Ralph said as he started biting his thumb nail. Whenever he was stressed or really excited he would chew on his nails. So I was starting to feel on edge. "Jack?" He asked not looking at me and picking at his sheets. "How do you feel about gays?" Ralph asked quietly.
What was it with people catching me off guard that day. "Umm, I'm fine with them. I'm actually gay myself." I said smiling awkwardly at him.
Ralph gave me a white smile. "Well, that makes me feel a lot better. You're kinda like my best friend at this time." He said playing with the mouse pad. "So, I was talking with another person on Skype and they told me they use to be on the same soccer team when we were in high school." He started. "And he told me that he always had a crush on me." I could feel panic bubbling up inside. "His name is Andrew and he's really cute." A blush crept across his face. "I told him I'd have to think about it, but I think I should say yes." He looked at me for approval.
I tried wracking my brain for any memory of an Andrew that want to our high school. The only one that came to mind was a brunette with braces. He wasn't the most handsome guy around back then, but I had no clue about now. "You don't know anything about this Andrew guy." I said trying to persuade him against it. "I mean he could only want one thing from you."
A frown found its way on to Ralph's features. "Jack, why are you being so negative about this? I thought you'd be happy for me. Aren't friends suppose to be supportive?" His words felt like a knife was being jammed into my chest.
"I just want you to be careful." I said, my eye flickering between his face and my key board. "Maybe you should work on getting better before you think about trying to start a relationship." I was trying to cover up any hint of jealousy that might have leaked into my tone.
Ralph just stared at me with a blank expression on his face. The tape on his nose looked as if he had picked at it and the circles looked like they were lightening a tad. "Thanks for think about me, but I was told to just go about life, and that's what I'm going to do. Now are you going to be supportive or are you going to keep being negative?" He asked seriously.
There was no way I wanted to be seen as negative by him, but I did not know how I could go even one day with out talk to Ralph. Sure we fought and had pissed one another off, but, in my mind, the good times out weighed the bad. Man, do I sound sappy. "Okay." I finally said.
"Thank you." He said, a warm smile was now on his face. "I'll message him later." Ralph took a second to look at his phone. "Do you have a boyfriend?" He asked not looking up from his phone.
"Not I could hear the sadness in my voice. It made me sick letting Ralph hear it. "A recent situation has caused us to split up." The way I worded it was to lessen the emotional blow I suffered.
His eyes filled with sympathy. "I'm sorry. If it helps any, from what I know of you, you're a good guy and can find someone new in no time." I know he was trying to make me feel better, but it just made me angry. I just blew up at him. "It's not that easy! I had been with him for years! He was one of the best things in my life!" I could feel my face heat up as I yelled. "He's moving on without me and he seems like he couldn't be happier! Now I have to act like I'm okay with it, because why should I mess up his happiness?!" Ralph's eyes widened. "I love him so much that I'm willing to feel like shit for him! Does that sound like I want someone new?!" I paused to let in all sink in. All the pain and betrayal I was feeling. Ralph was frozen in fear. "Have a nice night Ralph." I said before logging off. Placing my laptop back under my bed, I laid down and cried myself to sleep for the first time in year.

A/N: Just want to say thank you to my readers and especially to Annalise12, Nadia, and Katherine-E-kora who reviewed. :) You all rule!

Also, the next chapter might be later then the rest with all my classes dropping projects on me at once. -.-