The Playboy Hid His Roommate, So the Whole Quad Watched Him Beg novel · Chapter 20 of 24
Chapter 20: Lamp On
Wilder lay on his back in the narrow bed and watched the ceiling, and for once the lamp was on and he did not want it off.
It was eleven on Friday night.
The window was open an inch, and the Green outside was quiet.
Dash lay beside him, propped on one elbow, with the toast on index cards spread across the blanket.
He had written it six times and thrown away five.
Wilder had not read any of them.
"Stop," Wilder said.
Dash looked up.
"Stop writing it. Put the cards down. It's not going to get better at eleven o'clock at night."
"It might," Dash said.
"It won't," Wilder said.
"It could use a joke."
"It could use you not having a joke," Wilder said, and smiled. "Come here."
Dash swept the cards onto the floor.
He lay down properly, on his side, and Wilder rolled to face him.
The lamp threw a warm yellow circle over the two of them.
Wilder had left his aids in.
He had decided that on the walk home, without telling anyone.
He had decided that if he was going to listen to one more night, he wanted to hear all of it.
It was a thin, strange sound, the hum of the radiator and the tick of the old window frame and Dash's breath.
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