"Just the once," Heath said, and then because he wouldn't lie to Merton, he gave him a loose, relaxed sort of shrug and turned so that his legs were drooped over his friend's. "Doesn't mean we won't do it again, but it doesn't really mean anything. I mean, we shag a lot of people, yeah?" And Gideon was his best friend, but he could separate the two in his head - the Gideon who he did everything else with, and the Gideon who'd fucked him into the sodding mattress after he'd made him beg for it. "Don't get your own place."