He's used to the visitors being gentle with him. Some don't even want sex, just a moment of companionship with an attractive youth.
This one isn't like that. He's very nearly brutalized by a man who calls him Robert. Indicating the guy is using Adam as a stand-in for someone else...and the decent Christian man is more concerned about Adam's torn shirt than anything.
Then as he's taking hits off a bong in his room, Rory tells him men come to them so they can do things they can't do at home or in the office. And Luc refers to how he was taken out of his home because of his stepfather's abuse.
Which makes Adam grow very unsettled...and consider expanding on his drug use to deal with it.
That wound up adding about six-hundred words to the chapter, even after some cuts. It's still on the short side...2150 words...but it feels a lot more honest.
It's unsettled me, as well, however. Seems I keep working up the easy way into the story and then, just as I get all self-satisfied, Adam comes along and says, "But it needs this." So I get back to work.
I really do wonder, sometimes, if I'm a psycho.
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