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"She's in her room," he told me.
"I wanted to talk to you, actually."
His brows raised, but he opened the door wider, inviting me in. "What's going on?"
"I need to talk to a man, and you're the one who came to mind." Letting out a sigh, I flopped on his bed.
A damp towel on the corner explained what he'd been doing. So did the sharp line of his beard. Jamik grunted that I had a point and started gathering up the supplies he'd used to shave.
"Did something happen today? You're supposed to be moving," he said.
"I'm moved. I also, um..." I shoved my face into both of my hands. "I don't know what I'm doing!"
"Hey," he breathed, hurrying around the end of his bed to sit beside me. "What happened?"
"I kissed two boys."
"Ok?" He draped his arm over my back. "Did they push you around? Maybe you went too far? It's ok, Nari. You can talk to me."
"No," I said. "You don't understand. I kissedtwoof them. At thesame time."
With a chuckle, he pulled me against his side. "How at the same time are we talking? Like, multiple tongues in your mouth? Or pinned between them?"
"Pinned," I admitted.
He nodded. "And you were grossed out?"
"No! I liked it, and I didn't want them to stop, but one said his balls hurt, and we kinda needed to cool down. But, um, they're my friends, and we've been hanging out lately."
Jamik nodded. "The boy you kissed because the others were picking on him?"
"And his best friend. Yeah."
He palmed the side of my face and made me look at him. "So what are you worried about? You liked it. They liked it. Why are you acting as if the world is about to end?"
"Because I don't know how that works, and no one's ever talked to me about it! Because all my life, you made it sound like there's two people, and that's it, but what if there's more? How would that even work? Never mind that Wraythe is going to be a guardian!"
"You don't know that," Jamik reminded me. "See, this is why we choose our Path. Maybe this boy always wanted to be a guardian, but now he'll change his mind and start following the Path of the Body."
"Everyone says he's too ugly for that," I mumbled.
"Is he?" Jamik asked.
I shrugged. "He's not beautiful like most people, but he's wonderful to look at. He's big and strong - "
"Like me?" Jamik asked.
"Eww," I teased. "But no, bigger and stronger. The kids in my class pick on him and call him a monster."
"Wraythe," Jamik mumbled, proving he knew exactly who I was talking about. "Yeah, he's probably going to be a guardian. Most of us think he'll end up with that pretty boy, um, Elusadin?"
"Eladehl," I corrected, "and he was the other one."
"Ok," Jamik said. "Well, I'm pretty sure he likes boys, right?"
"And girls," I said.
"Really?" Jamik grunted like that honestly surprised him. "Ok, well that changes things a bit. And this big kid, does he like both?"
