Extra Credit: A Gay Love Story (Elliot Extra Book 1) by Erin Bilton-Hayes

Author:Erin Bilton-Hayes [Bilton-Hayes, Erin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-07-24T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8.

William woke up to sunlight streaming through his open curtains and audibly groaned. Why did his head hurt so badly and why hadn’t he closed his curtains before he went to sleep? He blinked a few times, then remembered what had happened the previous night. He climbed out of bed for just long enough to pull the curtains closed, considered trying to make it to the kitchen to get a glass of water without bumping into Tyler and decided he wanted to stay in the safety of his room for as long as possible. He climbed back into bed, pulling the covers over himself and fell back asleep despite his pounding headache.

When he woke again a few hours later he had sweated so much his sheets felt like they were glued to his back. He wrinkled his nose, sat up and regretted it almost immediately. He couldn’t actually say how much of how terrible he felt was a hangover, what was dehydration, and what was a horrible sinking feeling he had fucked up monumentally. He couldn’t really stay in his room forever, though. He stood up, tugging on his dressing gown and opened his door a crack. Tyler’s door was still firmly closed. William walked to the kitchen, treading carefully, even though he knew Tyler must surely be awake by now; it was the early afternoon. He drained a glass of water, then another, gulping it too quickly and spilling a thin stream down his chin and onto his chest.

He dug through the drawer full of miscellaneous crap under the kitchen counter, hoping he might turn up a painkiller or two, but no such luck. Coffee would probably make things better. William wondered how long he could avoid someone who was living in the same house as him and resolved to find out. He hoped it would be a while at least. He could hear movement from Tyler’s bedroom, and then the bathroom door shutting and the sound of the shower. He probably had about ten minutes to smoke a cigarette, drink some coffee, and disappear back into his own bedroom before Tyler emerged, he thought. He let himself onto the balcony, and lit a cigarette, the nicotine hitting him and making the hangover behind his eyes wobble back and forth, unable to decide if it was getting worse or better. How did he manage not to date at all, really, then the first boy he kisses who he actually likes in what might be years, is straight and living in his spare room? William closed his eyes and held the smoke in his lungs for a second longer than usual.

He shut the door of his bedroom at the exact moment the lock on the bathroom clicked open, and the whirr of the fan became louder now it wasn’t muffled by the door. William felt sort of stupid, and childish, hiding in his bedroom, but he also didn’t really want to face Tyler just yet. It was Sunday, which meant he had a day before classes, but maybe he could just go up to campus tomorrow anyway… oh no.

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