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Chapter 53 - Chastity Is A Virtue

Eclipse Of The Moon ~ Book 1 of Aaron
Chapter 53
Chastity Is A Virtue

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Wednesday 10 March 2004

"Hey, Mark! How are you doing, Bro?" I ask cheerfully as I pick up the phone, my heart somersaulting in my chest like each time I get to speak with one of my best friends.

"Hey, Ron! I'm doing great. I know you're off on Wednesday afternoons and since I have a short break before my last class, I thought I should check in on you. How are you doing?"

"Just fine. School's going well and I'm getting ready for the finals in June," I reply with a genuine smile because this is the plain truth.

As incredible as it may sound, I truly enjoy the Business Management course I am following. For someone who never liked school, this is quite surprising, but having discussed this many times with Mark, I think he's right when he says that it's only because I have found my way and the right motivation for a career. Obviously, there are classes I'm more reluctant to attend, but all in all, most of the subjects are interesting and I feel like I'm learning a lot.

"Glad to hear, Ron. I'm really happy for you."

"How about you?"

"All good, as usual. I actually just received the approval for my transfer to France next year!" he replies excitedly.

"It was a foregone conclusion with you being the top of your class, but congrats all the same."

"Not that foregone and there's still a pending condition. I need to pass the finals at the end of the schoolyear."

"Ugh come on, you know you will. You're just too good at what you're doing, and cooking is even more than a vocation for you. You have a real talent, Mark."

"We'll see... How's it going with Ivan?" he then asks warily, and as my body stiffens right away, I'm only grateful that Mark can't see me.

I have failed my determination to always be honest with my best friends and I feel terribly guilty about this. Sadly, I just can't resolve to tell them about the lifestyle I indulge in and I can't even explain why. My best friends have never been judgmental, they wouldn't reject me for a lifestyle I'm sincerely growing to love, but I think it's just too soon. However, not willing to breed more lies than I can handle, I have confessed that Ivan and I are now in a relationship, a regular one. Creating non-existing boyfriends or imagining fake one-night stands I'd meet at the Heaven Water would have been much harder to keep track of, and I feel closer to the truth this way.

On the downside, it has often gotten me many questions that I have had a hard time dodging, mostly related to sex. The guys keep teasing me about who's topping and who's bottoming, or how often we switch, but my answer – a silly and incriminating one – is always the same.

That's none of your business.

Way to make things more obvious. This has earned me a lot of taunting and lewd jokes in the beginning, but the guys quickly understood that I didn't wish to discuss this and I'm thankful they stopped insisting after a few weeks.