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UR A MEANIE DADDY

PrivateDickDaddy:

WTF?!

what did I do wrong this time?

*@AdorableAce has blocked @PrivateDickDaddy from Kink Manor Group Chat*

I jump out of the group chat because this is too much drama for me this close to class. I shoot Lucky a private message in the chat app instead of a text since I know he’s on. He’s supposed to be in class, so he’s likely on his laptop and not his phone.

PanPup:

@AdorableAce u shuldnt blok ur daddy

ur gunna git a spankin

AdorableAce:

I know but he doesn’t understand how Sparkles feels about his room goingto Stan

Daddy never had to know what it feels like to lose the only home you’ve ever known

he doesn’t get what that room represents to Eric… or us

PanPup:

I’m worried about Eric

he seemed really sad at the party

AdorableAce:

he’ll be ok

SuperMattie will keep him safe

I just need some duct tape to keep Daddy from making things worse

Wait… is it really duct tape? I always thought it was duck tape, like quack quack and feathers and all that stuff. I guess I learned something new.

The AI assistant device on the wall speaks up to remind me that I have fifteen minutes to get to class. Owner programmed my schedule into it last week and set it up to have the sexy Aussie accented dude remind me about my classes and all of my appointments. I shoot off one last message in the group chat to sign off and silence my phone.

PanPup:

u all wil eat 4 free opening my café

65

SHILOH

I’ve never been in the audience for a graduation ceremony. Hell, I was barely at my own high school graduation. I had to beg Michael for the money to rent the cap and gown for it and raced back to the house afterward to make sure that I was locked in by the time the sun went down. I learned at sixteen what happens when a young black man is out on the streets after dark in that neighborhood. Being detained by the cops for walking to the corner store for something to eat, I learned it’s better to starve than be out after dark around there. Between the violence and the profiling, I vowed to never let myself get into that situation again.

“And now a few words from our top student this year, Tobias Grady!”

The announcement from the stage rouses my attention back to the auditorium and to my best friend, my lover,my heartstanding behind a podium that makes him look so much more mature than the goofball I knowand love. The roar of the crowd as we cheer makes everyone on the stage laugh.

There are only a little over a hundred graduates, and the venue for the commencement holds about a thousand spectators. Toby told us last night that they usually only fill about a quarter of the room for commencement since the pandemic, but we managed to pack the room almost completely full.

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