Devon used the soap and got himself pretty clean, figuring he'd better learn how to clean his pits and groin if this was the new normal and he couldn't find a way to get rid of it. He was thinking straight but just had no ideas yet. Where had Joe picked this up from? Too embarrassing by far to tell his parents or see a doctor but he might have to if he can't think of anything before his rents get home.
As he got out of the shower he grabbed a towel and looked at himself in the mirror to see how he looked now, his hair all darker with the moisture, especially in his groin. His abs trail was plastered down instead of fluffy. Pit bushes looked almost black wet, and his face for sure looked hairier wet.
Because he now looked so teenage and jockish like the older guys he'd seen, for a lark he decided to try wrapping a towel around his waist and tucking it in like he'd seen them do all confidently. It seemed like such a silly and wrong thing to do, but he got it right and had to admit it made him look like them which was kind of nice to know he could get it right if he wanted to.
As Devon went back into his room he noticed it wasn't the same either. There were posters of football players hung up and wrestlers, too, a trophy on his shelf for something, maybe baseball? He went closer and it was old, maybe from three or four years ago. He didn't play baseball! He saw a football jersey strewn on top of his dresser and there was a wrestling singlet right on the floor, he had barbells, oh shit, all sorts of guy stuff.
There was a list of wrestling meets on his dresser and practice schedule for tomorrow.
Had his mom signed him up? He would never do this. He lifted up the wrestling singlet and thought now that he had one, maybe try it on quick in case it came down to him having to go to a practice for some reason.
He pulled it up and it was tight on him and felt weird, he couldn't wait to get it off. He went into the bathroom just to see, and it was like looking at some other guy who was a wrestler. He got as close to the mirror as he could. So weird that guys wore these, with the armpit hair just sticking out at their sides and everything. He lifted his arms up and saw his bushes again. Would it be weird to shave off that hair if he had to? He supposed then people would notice he'd shaved them, and wonder why, which might be weird, too.
Or could he shave his groin? Guys didn't do that though, right? Plus he had hair on his legs, too. He'd have to shave his face probably for sure, just way too embarrassing to have the faint beginnings of a goatee like this and his whole upper lip.
Devon was still hoping he'd have an idea about what to do, although nothing was coming to him right now other than maybe he could try shaving his face, he couldn't leave it like that.