In the living area with Lisa

Lisa, the dark haired, Latina beauty sat on one side of the sofa, turned facing inwards, one knee up on the cushion as she reclined against the corner between the arm rest and the back cushion. She was facing Gavin, Zack's introverted best friend, his soulful brown eyes betraying the weight of the world on his shoulders.

"I don't know what to do," Gavin raised a hand to his forehead. "What's your opinion? As a girl?"

"As a girl?" Lisa laughed heartily. "Gender doesn't really come into it. This is about cheating, and I've never cheated on anyone. Been cheated on though." She thought of Zack and that party eight months ago.

"Right." Gavin frowned, his mind awash with thoughts, some about Victoria, some about Chloe, none of them feeling like solutions.

"I do know that Victoria was being kind to give you some time to get your head straight. I wouldn't have been so forgiving." Then, thinking about it, Lisa added, "Though maybe she was feeling guilty about Kurt."

"Kurt...how...how does he do it?" Gavin pondered, leaning his head back against the cushion.

"Do what?"

"Entice all of the women. And have none of the problems. And never worry about getting them pregnant." Gavin jumped to his feet and started pacing back and forth as he ranted. "Since I came here and started a relationship, I've had nothing but problems. Since he's come here, he's damn near fucked every single girl on the trip and no one is mad at him."

"Good fortune?"Lisa shrugged. "As far as I understand it, Chloe only started with Kurt after Zack went behind her back with Ashley, so that's clearly a insecurity thing. Ashley said it was an accident and Victoria only went to Kurt because you were unwilling to perform."

"I wanted to...maybe not have sex, but other stuff...I really wanted to, but I kept imagining cum somehow getting inside her and then my whole life would flash before my eyes." Gavin admitted.

"You need to get out of your head, Gavin. Not saying you're wrong to think about those things, but you can't neglect your girlfriend's feelings either. There's got to be a balance. I'll say this for Kurt, he doesn't think any further ahead than his dick can reach."

"What's this about Kurt's dick?"

Gavin and Lisa looked up to see Zack entering from the hall, his face bruised and discoloured, but otherwise healthy and standing. Lisa's eyes, however, drifted lower, noticing that Zack's shorts were tight around his crotch.

"I'm trying to tell him not to worry so much," Lisa said.

"Why? Is he worried about Kurt's dick?" Zack teased her. "But that is pretty sound advice."

"How am I meant to not worry?" Gavin threw his arms in the air. "I've got one friend who fucked me awake this morning, a girlfriend who's pissed and might be pregnant, a guy who wants to fuck my girlfriend and I may have caused it because I wouldn't let her blow me. How does this not sound like stuff worth worrying about?"

"For one, most of it's already happened. And secondly, because your girlfriend is willing to draw a line under all of it and move on." Zack said. "IF that's what you want."

"I don't know." Gavin fell back on to the sofa and reclined his head on the cushion again. "Victoria deserves someone better, someone confident who can give her what she needs."

"So, Chloe then?" Lisa suggested.

"I don't think Chloe's in the right place for a relationship at the minute." The bespectacled boy looked to Zack. "Besides, if it didn't work out then she'd have lost both of us as friends."

"So...neither? You want to be single again?" Zack said.

"No, now that I've started having sex I'd like to keep doing it," Gavin said, eliciting laughter from both Zack and Lisa. "But, I'm not sure I'm the man that either of them needs....the only thing I am sure of is that I need to pee."

"That's not information I need to know, Gavin Westher," Lisa playfully admonished him as he rose from the sofa and shuffled down the hall.

As he came upon the bathroom though, he heard a soft, sobbing coming from one of the doors. It was Chloe's room that she shared with Heather, and it was obvious that she was crying behind the door. Which put Gavin in a bit of a bind.

On the one hand, as a friend, he wanted to check on her and console her. But, he was also worried that it might send the wrong signal. Though, maybe it was a signal he was meant to follow to his destiny. Which was just stupid.

Gavin shook his head, trying to get himself out of his own thoughts. But he still had a decision to make.