She kept coughing and tried to say that shewas alright, but a cough interrupted every word.Jason kept trying to apologize but my mother keptsmiling in...between her coughs. Her left hand was onJason’s thigh for support and Jason just took the imagein. After a few minutes my mom stopped coughing. Shewent back to being the cheerful person she was.That was when I remembered the cheese cake and wasabout to get it when my mom interrupted me.“Hun its okay, I’ll get it.” She got. "Sorry I forgot," I said."Corey, are you okay now?" Scott asked."I'm fine now once I had a nice little cry about it. It just hurt so muchto have your mom be so cruel," Corey said. "I guess it's when I don't havea boyfriend she has this false hope I'll be straight. That ain't happeningthough." Damn right it ain't," Hayden said. "You know when I first came here I wasashamed of being gay. Now I'm actually proud of it in a weird way." Hayden, I sort of felt the same way. The only problem I had was. I finished up my drink and excused myself from the table of girls. I headed for the restroom. As I was leaving I heard a few comments, ‘go get them girl’ and ‘save one for me’.I freshened up. Checked my makeup, put on fresh lipstick and took a deep breath. I strode out of the restroom and into the bar with a confidence that made me feel I was invincible. I felt good!They had pulled up a third stool at their now clean table. There was a drink waiting for me.“Good evening gentlemen. Thank you for. "David ... ah David what are you doing here?" Just like you enjoying the party." Who are you with?"'Now I thought maybe I will fuck with her a bit, and feed her a line of bullshit. I wonder if she ever met Tracie. I was not sure on that thought. Anyway fuck it here comes the bullshit.' I thought to myself."Well you remember my buddy Jimmy. He is over there with those two beautiful ladies. Anyway he was at a big stag party in Detroit a month ago, and won one of the major prizes.It was a prize.