In desperation Ted bought a ticket for the bus and traveled two hundred miles up to where his older brother Tom was in his sophomore year in college. He got there late Friday night and took a cab directly to the Phi Kappa Alpha fraternity house. He found his brother deeply immersed in a Play Station game with three of his frat brothers. Tom saw him and with a big grin waved him to an overstuffed chair in front of a roaring fire. One of the pledges asked him if he wanted a beer and Ted covered his amazement and said sure. He was sipping on the beer when Tom and his partner finished the game and Tom came over to sit in the chair beside him. The first thing he did was take the beer away from him and start drinking it himself.

"You're still a little young for drinking beer Ted, we'd get busted big time by the Council if they found out we had minors drinking in the house. How did you get up here? Do the folks know you're gone?"

"Uhh I took the bus and I'm not exactly sure they know I left, they were at a party and I got thinking and I figured that I could get some advice from you and so I ..." Ted started to respond when Tom held up his hand and interrupted him.

"Wait a minute then," Tom said as he set the beer down on the table between them and left the room. He came back in a few minutes and sat back down.

"I called Mom on her cell phone and told her you had taken the bus up here to visit with me for the night and that I would drive you home tomorrow. I told her I was supposed to have called and cleared it with her and Dad but I got wrapped up in schoolwork and forgot, so you're not grounded for life. Now what the hell is so important that you'd do something so stupid as leave home without telling anyone?"

Ted told Tom about his problem with Tara and how frustrated he was at not being able to score with her. Tom took another drink from his beer and grinned.

"So why not find another girl? I mean you're popular and you're good looking just like your big brother - what's the problem, there's plenty of girls in that school that put out. Shit, I must have gone through ten or eleven tight little pussies in high school, what's the big deal bro?"

......(cont)