Rachel investigates further

You sense a pause in the action from your position under the bed.

"Are you sure your friend was alone?" You hear Rachel ask, at the same time you notice the hoodie disappear from the carpet at the foot of the bed.

"What do you mean?" asks Richard.

You then see the jeans get pulled from the floor as well.

"Well, these are definitely a girl's pink hoodie and skinny jeans!" Rachel says, apparently studying them from above you. "Maybe we weren't the only ones having fun?"

"Oh, I'm sure," says Richard as you watch the clothes get tossed further into a corner of the bedroom. "It's just that he's..uhhh.. transitioning, but kind of in the closet about it yet."

You'd have liked to have gotten out right now and slugged him for saying that about you, but you knew you had to stay put to save some face. Did he know you were under here listening to him?

"Well, he couldn't have gotten very far without this , then. Why don't you be a friend and help him out?" asks his bedmate.