Levi helped me back to my dorm room. Out from the BARB and back to that sweaty, rampant mess we called home. Jackie and his girlfriend Liz, short for Elizabeth, were making out on his bed during our intrusion.
"What the fuck?!" Jackie shouted, springing up between Liz and us.
Then, after he saw that it was Levi and the girl who'd just given him a little blow this same morning, Jackie immediately shut up.
"We need the room," Levi said, uncompromisingly.
Jackie was postured, shoulders back, and fists clenched. Every aspect of his body was hardened and I even saw his cock give me a little twitch of acknowledgement. He looked at Levi, irritated and ornery, then to me with fear and worry. He wanted to dominate something, someone. All that needed to happen was for someone to give him the chance.
"Let me have some time with these two, Liz," he said, voice low and steeped in ire, "come see me again later this evening."
Liz gave me a dirty look, left Jackie a kiss, and departed. Levi followed her out, then locked the door behind her. Jackie was already giving the both of us a smoldering stare, his face demanding an explanation. Levi started.
"It's Jasper," he said, pointing his thumb toward me.
'There really was no easy way to say it, was there?'
"What..?" Jackie replied, his face scrunching.
The strain of his facial expression painted himself crimson. Levi doubled down and made an exaggerated motion as if he meant to present me to some gaming contestant.
"Thiiiis, iiiis, Jaaasssper," he repeated.
Jackie blitzed across the room and pinned Levi against the wall by his shirt.
"You think this is funny?" he sneered in Levi's face, "Some funny prank? Hah hah? Look at Jackie, guys! Funny homo!"
A look of realization spread across Levi as the word planted itself deep into both our stomachs.
"Yeah, man. Sorry. Not very funny, I guess. But we do need the room," Levi said.
"Whatever, maybe I'll be back after you finish with her," Jackie's grip released as he went to storm out of the room.
"Fucking slut," he hissed at me before struggling with the door lock he'd forgotten about and slammed the door behind him.
The entire encounter flooded my body with salty shores of depression. I ran across the room and curled up in the fetal position on my bed. My head hurt, my eyes itched, and I didn't understand why his reaction was so mean. He'd never, and I mean NEVER, given me those types of vibes before. To think that this was the same person I thought I knew was like trying to complete a jigsaw puzzle when you've substituted the final piece from another box. It just didn't fit.
Levi sat down on the bed with me, his hand resting on my ankle.
"I can't even pretend to know what you might be feeling right now and I don't mean to take away any time you might need to..." his voice drifted off as he failed to capture exactly what he wanted to say, "but we still have to get Kabo his quota."
We sat in the moment for just shy of thirty heartbeats. Time that he could've easily measured through the rushing blood in my veins, pulsing against his steady palm. I sat up, pulled down on my face and eyelids, and nodded.
"I'll be here with you every step of the way. You can do this."
Our eyes locked onto each other. His eyes were so blue, it took everything I had not to drown myself in them.
"I'll bring you some folks and stick around to make certain you're safe doing all this. Do we need to worry about like... pregnancy, sex diseases, and stuff?"
It was a valid question and one that I also didn't immediately have the answer to, nor had I thought to ask. God, I had been so stupid. How could I?
"I, I don't know," I answered him.
He simply nodded, as if the complete lack of an answer somehow gave him an actual one.
"Never thought I'd get a job working as a demon patient's pimp," he chuckled.
I giggled alongside him; the joke stretched out from the bed and lightened the burden of despair I was holding. Credit to Levi where it was due, he was a lot wittier than I'd ever given him credit for.
With that, Levi squeezed my ankle, stood from the bed and started for the door.
"I'll be back in a few minutes if you want to make yourself presentable."
Levi's surety gave me back the cure I needed to fix this ailment. Inspired now more than ever before, I felt confident that not only could I get the fluids Kabo demanded of me, with Levi's support, it might even be fun while doing so.