Chad walk hops down the basement steps from the locker room to the steam tunnels. He just hopes that they haven't blocked the exit from the utility house where the boiler is located at the edge of the campus. Chad is relieved to find the path is clear. He exits the boiler room and disappears into the woods. The green jumpsuit and green baseball cap are perfect camouflage.
He thinks about where Murkwood is relative to his home and friends. School would be closed for the weekend if continued on foot. He doesn't think most people would stop for a hitchhiker that looked like he did now. Anyone who did would probably mean him harm. Bruno lived closest. His house backed on to the woods. Yeah, Bruno was his best hope.
Bruno got home from swim practice, and went straight to his bedroom. He flipped through his favorite online porn. He had bookmarked Studs in Stone, and Chad's YouTube photo shoot. He got off on statues, mannequins and frozen dudes. Chad held poses in his water polo Speedo for minutes in the video while the photographer adjusted lighting, and took his photos.
He read a couple stories, scanned a bunch of photos, replayed the video 3 times. He was now rock hard. Then he glanced out the window.
"Fuck, dreams can come true. My own fucking Chad mannequin just walked out of the woods? Can't be real? Can it? I haven't done any drugs, maybe someone slipped me some acid? I better check it out."
Bruno came flying out the backdoor with his Speedo totally tented. He ran straight toward Chad. The stiff armed mannequin embraced Bruno. Chad's permanent boner jabbed Bruno in the abs. Bruno grinned. Anatomically correct mannequin or maybe android. It must've gotten out of that Murkwood Academy, the jumpsuit was embroidered with their logo.
Hastily, Bruno ushered silent Chad into his house, upstairs and into his bedroom. Bruno did not want anyone to see his latest toy.
Chad's video was replaying on the screen for the fourth or fifth time. Chad pointed at his image and then at himself.
"Yeah you do look like Chad, " Bruno said.
Chad shook his head. He pointed back and forth between himself and the video.
"You are Chad?" Bruno asked uncertainly.
Chad tried to nod, but his neck no longer bent that way, so he leaned back and forth to simulate nodding.
"Murkwood players did this to you?" Bruno asked.
Chad moved awkwardly, he couldn't shrug anymore. He grabbed a pencil on Bruno's desk and roughly scrawled on a piece of paper, "I think so. It really is me, Bruno. Please help me, I am Chad."
Chad noticed that there was a large wet spot on Bruno's tented pouch. Maybe coming to Bruno's wasn't the best idea after all.