Page 27 of Frat Around and Find Out (Peach State Fratbros #1)

Lance

I ’m buzzing with excitement by the time I get back to Alpha Theta Mu.

Not only did I get to have an amazing time with Ty last night, but now we don’t have to keep our secret anymore.

I loved seeing how he didn’t pull away when we were around his fellow Sigma Alphas.

How he kissed me goodbye in front of them.

But mostly, I love that this means we can stay over at each other’s houses whenever we want without having to make excuses or keep being busy with feigned TaskFrat shit.

At least, once I tell the guys about us.

Marty’s in the living room, doing homework, so I grab him and we head up to find Ash because of course I can’t disclose this without my best bro.

I skip some steps as I head up the stairs.

“If you don’t say you won the lottery after this, I’m gonna be annoyed,” Marty jokes.

Ash’s door is open, so I don’t think twice about heading in, when I hear, “Fuck me, Colin. Fuck me harder.”

I halt in place, but I’m too late—I already see Colin’s nude back, firm ass shaking. Ash’s head is rolled back as he moans.

“Holy hell!” Marty calls out, and in my periphery, I see him slip right back out the door.

“Whoa,” spits out of my mouth as my mind catches up with what’s happening, and Colin glances over his shoulder as Ash’s gaze meets mine.

“Dude, fuck,” Ash says as Colin uses himself as a shield to cover his stepbrother’s body. “Did you guys need something?” Ash pokes his head around Colin.

“Um…”

“Man, don’t act like this is the first time you’ve caught us in the act.”

Fair.

“Lance, get out of there,” Marty calls from the hall. “What are you doing ?”

“You just wanna stand there?” Colin asks. “Because if you leave, I can pull out and we can actually talk about whatever you wanted to tell Ash. Or, as you know, we’re happy to keep going.”

I laugh nervously. “Yes, yes of course.” I open my mouth to say more but realize that less is definitely more in this case, and I head out, my cheeks still hot from catching them in the act.

And maybe because it was more than a little hot.

I join Marty in the hall as he rubs his eyes.

“Oh, the images!” he calls out dramatically. “Make them go away!”

*

“But you don’t even like him,” Marty says.

After Ash and Colin threw on some joggers, we settled in their room, me standing, Colin and Ash sitting on the bed, Marty on the love seat, and I told them my news about Ty.

“We were never enemies,” I stress.

“Yeah, that’s too bad,” Ash says. “Because that would have been even hotter.”

“Dirty boy,” Colin tells him.

“You made me dirty.”

“Lies.”

They’re kind of self-involved in the moment, as though Marty and I have disappeared.

“Excuse me,” I say. “Big news here.”

“Sorry, sorry,” Colin says. “It’s been a while since I’ve seen my guy, and obviously we were—”

“We all know what you were doing,” Marty interjects.

“Really? Because I thought you of all people might have forgotten what it was like.”

“Shut the fuck up. I get laid.”

Ash, Colin, and I glance at each other, our skepticism written all over our faces. Even Frat Cat is giving Marty a look from the end of the bed.

“Feel like I remember the last time,” I say. “Last fall.”

“How could you know that?” he asks.

“You were chill for a good two weeks,” Ash says. “We all knew.”

Marty scoffs. “I’m sorry I’m not the horny frat fuck-magnet like you guys were before you coupled off. And as I recall, Lance was just like me…or at least I thought so until he shared that he’s been fucking Ty Lancaster.”

“I mean, we fucked,” I say, “but technically, he fucked me.”

I knew how Marty meant it, but it seemed like a good opportunity to bring up this part of the experience that really intrigued me.

“Oh!” Ash says. “Lance likes to bottom?”

“I did not ask for these details,” Marty insists.

“Yeah, I really really like it,” I admit. “Like…” I raise my ha nds to my face and simulate an explosion radiating from my head.

“That’s not where you felt it most, though,” Ash teases. “Because that might be a medical issue.”

I laugh. “I’m almost mad at you for not telling me how good it feels.”

“I love getting fucked by my guy too,” Colin says. “But I also can tell when he just needs it.”

“Maybe I should leave you all to this,” Marty says.

“Chill out,” Colin says. “If we want, we can talk about your relationship with your hand once we catch up with Lance about how he’s just been awakened to what it feels like to get dicked down.”

Marty can’t fight back his laugh before he says, “You fucking bag of dicks. All of you. But sorry, I’m being an asshole right now.

Lance, you did just share something really personal, so…

” He rises to his feet, approaches, and rests his hand on my shoulder.

“I’m here for you. It makes no difference to me, though I’m rapidly becoming the minority in our friend group. ”

“In the group?” Colin asks. “Try the whole frat.”

“Yeah, I didn’t realize when I pledged Alpha Theta Mu that it would end with me becoming a raging bottom.”

“Oh, do guys who like bottoming rage all of a sudden?” I joke.

“You tell me. You gonna start raging if you don’t get Ty’s cock for a while?”

“Yeah, probably.” I say it as a joke, but…there’s some truth to it.

“Ew, gross,” Marty says. “I need this visual about as much as I need Ash’s sex face and Colin’s jiggling ass in my head.”

“You could see my sex face?” Ash asks. “Was it hot? ”

“You know it’s hot,” Colin says. “You get plenty of feedback about that face.”

“Well, I do love a compliment.”

“I’m not answering that,” Marty says.

“Come on,” I press. “Tell Ash if his sex face is hot.”

“I’m not playing this game.”

“Are you insulting my man?” Colin says, pulling an overdramatically serious face and clutching his fist.

“You guys are just trying to make me keep thinking of it, and it’s not gonna work.” Marty covers his ears. “La, la, la, la. I can’t hear you.”

“Hey, why you all having a party without me?” Payton walks in, in a beanie and tracksuit jacket, and plops down in the love seat next to Marty.

“Great timing,” I say. “I was just telling the guys about how I’m messing around with Ty Lancaster.”

“Why wasn’t I invited to the coming-out party?”

“This is not my coming-out party.”

“Yeah,” Ash says. “His coming-out party will be epic. What kind of best friend do you think I am?”

“So, this is like the committee meeting where we organize it? Cool.”

This is one of the reasons I love my guys. As I’ve shared this with the gang, there’s no judgment. No hate. Even Marty, who’s the most high-strung of the group, is still here for me, even if he’s pretending to be weirded out by the details.

“But wait, why you fucking with Ty Lancaster?” Payton asks.

“Come on,” I say. “We’re rivals, and we get onto each other when we can, but you know we don’t actually wish harm upon anyone at Sigma Alpha.”

“Speak for yourself,” Payton says .

“I get that,” Marty adds. “But I just don’t see you and Ty together. Like at all.”

“Don’t be homophobic,” Payton insists.

“What? That is not what I meant.”

And Payton’s snickering, since we all know that’s not what Marty meant.

“Man, you all are the worst,” Marty says. “Really, the least surprising thing in Alpha Theta Mu seems to be someone getting together with another dude. At this point, it’ll be more shocking if Payton and I can graduate without getting some man-on-man action.”

“You never know,” I assure them, which gets Payton laughing, though it seems to make Marty think for longer than I would think he’d need to about that.

Marty shakes his head. “Well, just know, if that guy hurts you, we’re gonna come down hard and destroy him and his asshole buddies.”

“Us and what army?” Payton asks. “You’ve seen Ryan and Keegan, right?”

“We’ve got Colin, and we can call in Troy.”

Colin and Troy, our beefy jock alums, could definitely rival Ryan and Keegan in that department.

“Those guys can easily take them on,” Marty says.

“We’re really talking about summoning alumni to fight our battles for us?” I joke. “But there’s not any issues. Ty’s cool, and we’re having fun, and that’s all there is to it.”

“It sounds hot,” Ash says.

“Yeah, I can see it,” Payton adds.

“What do you mean you can see it?” Marty asks.

“Oh, come on. We’ve seen them all sweaty and in Speedos.

I can imagine their bodies rubbing up on each other, getting all steamy…

one of them teasing the hell out of the other until th ey blow…

” Payton has this far-off look in his eyes, like he’s considering my sex life way too much.

As he notices us looking at him, he shrugs.

“Not like I’m the only one thinking it.”

“It’s probably very hot,” Marty concedes. “But this doesn’t mean we’re suddenly cool with Sigma Alphas, right?”

“Fuck no,” I reply. “Rivalry continues, from the prank we’re gonna pull on their asses to make up for what they did to us at the start of this semester, and then we also have to kick their asses in the TaskFrat challenges.”

“That’s good,” Ash says, “because we still have to get them back for that prank. And actually, that was something I was gonna talk to you about.”

“What? Why?”

“Last night, Colin and I were brainstorming ideas, and we got a good one, but I’m not sure we can pull it off.”

Funny, because as eager as I was to share what Ty and I were up to with the guys, I’m almost as eager to even the score with my rival.

“Give it to me,” I say.

“Get a lot of practice saying that last night?” Colin teases.

I’m not gonna hear the end of this.

And rightfully so.