Ruth Sadelle Alderson

It was great sex, but he still doesn't know what it's like to have sex with a dude in this body, which he thinks he should also experience as long as he's got it. He's thinking about that, about how he could manage it without having to go out to a bar like he tried last night, while he makes post-workout eggs.

Brownie peers over his shoulder. "That's the same thing you make every day. The way you were concentrating, I thought you were doing something different."

"No," Segs says, and then he looks at Brownie. "Would you fuck me?"

Brownie eyes him up and down, lingers at his tits and his waist, then shrugs. "Sure."

"Yeah?"

"Yeah. After we eat."

They eat their eggs, Brownie puts the dishes in the sink, and then they go upstairs to Segs' room. It turns out that the two years Brownie has on him translates to way more than Segs would have expected in sexual expertise. It's pretty great sex, and because it's Brownie, there are all these other things he doesn't have to worry about, like getting laughed at (because he expects Brownie is going to do that no matter what) or getting hurt (because Brownie's his best friend and would never do anything to hurt him that didn't involve checking him into the boards on the ice). They fuck around a couple more times, but it's never serious - they're just bros helping each other out - and then eventually Segs wakes up with his old body, which is a fucking relief.

The whole experience does a lot to shift Segs' view of girls. (And makes him worry a hell of a lot more about his sisters.) When he goes out, he still sometimes picks up the same kind of hot girls he's always picked up, but he also starts paying attention to and getting to know other types of women. Eventually he meets this woman who reminds him a little of the lesbian he went home with over the summer. Not that she really looks like the lesbian - the lesbian was, actually, more like one of the hot girls than anything else, and this woman has short hair and pretty much always wears jeans and t-shirts - but she's pretty direct about wanting him, and really direct about what she wants once they're in bed. There's been a lot less guesswork now that Segs knows what it's like to have sex in a girl's body, but there's pretty much none now, because she tells him exactly what she wants and what makes her feel good, and he knows now that he totally gets off on that. He doesn't even care that she doesn't know much about hockey because the sex is amazing and she seems to actually like him as a person, and he definitely likes her for more than just the sex. And then they live happily ever after.