Gary, Bernie, and Lil go to the nearby apartment.

Lil's yawn set off a big yawn from Gary.

"We better just head to the apartment," Bernie said. "It's a long way back to your mom and dad's place."

"I'm hungry. There's no food there, can we hit a drive-through?" Gary said.

Bernie yawned and blinked. "I'm hungry too. Guess so."

They stopped by a 24-hour drive-through on the short trip from Roxy's place.

They parked in the reserved spot next to the old building that Jim Walker's business used for storage and happened to have an apartment on the top floor. Gary, Bernie, and Lil had been staying there during the week while they worked at Jim's business, where they had met Mark, whose admiration for Bernie's well-filled shorts had led, one thing to another, to the invitation to tonight's sex party hosted by Mark's cousin Roxy, to Gary's hook-up with Roxy and Bernie's with Mark, and to Lil's busy night, taking on three men one after the other, to her great satisfaction.

It wasn't much of an apartment for comfort or amenities, and the place had only been kept up as far as paint and functional repairs were concerned. But being next door to their summer jobs meant that they could spend less time in the car, and more time together. After a few nights of Gary and Bernie Trying To Keep Quiet, they'd had a talk one morning.

"You know," Lil had said. "As much as you try and keep it quiet in bed, I can still hear. So don't worry about it. I don't care."

"It's not, I mean, going to bother you?" Gary had said. "Keep you up?"

"Maybe try and keep extra quiet if you go at it at three in the morning?" Lil had said. "Otherwise I don't care."

"You don't feel bad about..." Bernie had said.

Lil shook her head. "I'm glad SOMEONE around me is having good sex. I'm happy I'm not having BAD sex right now."

They'd all laughed about it. As they settled in together, Lil was often treated to the sounds of Gary and Bernie having sex through the thin interior walls of the apartment. Now and again, Gary and Bernie heard Lil jilling herself off, sometimes with Billy Royce's music as her inspirational soundtrack. With some prodding and coaxing, Gary got good enough at cleaning and tidying and pulled most of his weight in keeping the apartment livable. It wasn't quite the no-clothes-allowed home that Bernie's mom Joyce maintained, but they were very casual about dressing. Gary and Lil had seen each other naked often enough in their family's sauna, or at the nudist resorts their parents used to take them to. Most evenings, the apartment was hot, and Lil and Bernie might just lounge around in T-shirts, and Gary would have a T-shirt and shorts, or sometimes not even shorts.

That night, after the party, they walked back up the fire stairs of the old storage building, carrying a bag full of fast-food midnight snacks, and back into the top-floor apartment. By this time of night, the often-hot apartment had cooled down.

Lil took a few bites, yawned, said "G'night," and walked unsteadily off to brush her teeth and crash into bed.

Gary and Bernie stayed up, satisfying their post-party hunger, occasionally looking up to meet each other's eyes and smiling. They tidied up the bags and wrappers and went to the bathroom together to get ready for bed, taking turns on the toilet, then standing next to each other at the sink, brushing their teeth in front of the aged bathroom mirror.

"I guess you know you're pretty close when you just go to the bathroom together," Gary said. "I've never done that with anyone else."

Bernie smiled, a little sadly. "Habiba and I did, when we were living together. Not even with Peter? I mean, you got started together in the shower, right? Did you go to the bathroom together with him?"

Gary laughed. "We did a little bit, I guess," he said. "I never thought of it, especially, that peeing together was even a thing, with another guy. But not like us, I mean, we're living together here, and it's a thing we do, almost every night."

They finished up and headed off to bed.

"I loved watching you with Roxy. That was pretty amazing, seeing you lick her ass," Bernie said as they lay together.

"Yeah, I had a good time," Gary said. "I've never, I mean, the first time I met someone." He laughed. "You know, licked her butthole, and fucked her slow for the rest of the party." He sighed. "I guess that makes it a good party."

"Did you like watching me with Mark?" Bernie asked.

"Yeah," Gary said. "I got to see you a little bit, after the start. But Roxy kept me pretty busy, so I guess I missed a lot." Gary had glimpsed Mark behind Bernie, his big brown hands cupping her golden buttocks as his cock slid in and out. But he'd looked back at Roxy in front of him, his pink hands spreading her brown buttocks as he fucked her, steady but not too deep, and lost track of Bernie. "Did you have a good time?"

"I did," she said. "I had a great time. He's just beautiful and strong, and I loved making him come. But, you know, it was good sex. I'd do it again, especially if you wanted to watch. But you're the one I love, and I know you love me."

"So much," Gary said. "So much."

They drifted off to sleep together with Gary spooned behind Bernie.