Keeping Corey

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 Keeping Corey
 
 
 
 Roger Hyttinen
 
 
 
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 Chapter 1
 
 
 Chapter 2
 
 
 Chapter 3
 
 
 Chapter 4
 
 
 Chapter 5
 
 
 Chapter 6
 
 
 Chapter 7
 
 
 Chapter 8
 
 
 Chapter 9
 
 
 Chapter 10
 
 
 Chapter 11
 
 
 Chapter 12
 
 
 Chapter 13
 
 
 Chapter 14
 
 
 Chapter 15
 
 
 Chapter 16
 
 
 Chapter 17
 
 
 Chapter 18
 
 
 Chapter 19
 
 
 Chapter 20
 
 
 Chapter 21
 
 
 Chapter 22
 
 
 Chapter 23
 
 
 Chapter 24
 
 
 Chapter 25
 
 
 Chapter 26
 
 
 Chapter 27
 
 
 Chapter 28
 
 
 
 
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 Keeping Corey by Roger Hyttinen
 
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 Chapter One
 
 
 
 
 
 Devin pushed open the freshly painted white door to room number 205, his new dorm room for the year. It was empty except for two wooden desks on each side of the room, two stripped-down beds, and two short identical dressers next to each bed. Like the door, the walls were painted in a basic institutional white, which Devin immediately planned on filling with his movie posters.
 “Are you rooming with anyone this year?” his mother asked from behind him. He stepped out of the way to let her and his father into the room.
 “I’m not sure. Probably? I doubt I’ll be as lucky as I was last semester.”
 His father stood in the center of the room, hands on his hips as he surveyed the room. “I don’t think you ever said what happened with your roommate. He just up and left in the middle of the semester?”
 “I heard he had some sort of psychotic break or something,” Devin said. “He was certainly a weird kid. He rarely ever spoke to me, though I suppose that’s not unusual, considering I’m neither a hockey fan nor a hockey player and am invisible here, for the most part. Scott was his name. Rumor is that the stress of school and hockey was too much for him, and he snapped. Whether it’s true, I have no idea. But he wouldn’t be the first student hockey player to hightail it back home in the middle of the semester.”
 “In any case, let’s hope your new roommate will be more personable than the last one,” said his father. He cleared his throat. “If you have any problems with your roommate, let me know. I mean, if they give you any crap for… um..”
 “For being gay?” asked Devin. Though his ultra-liberal parents claimed to accept Devin and stand by him—and Devin had no doubt that they did—his father always seemed to have a tough time saying the words. However, they at least were trying, so he had to give them credit. He realized he was lucky to have parents who were so accepting, meaning his big coming-out event was mostly a non-event. Unfortunately, many kids were not so fortunate, though he wished they hadn’t made him attend this hockey academy. Well, it wasn’t officially a hockey academy, but it may as well be. The school’s primary focus was hockey, and it had groomed and trained several professional hockey players over the years. Several currently well-known NHL players were graduates of Grovesburg Academy, home of the Grovesburg Gremlins.
 “Or for any other reason, said his father. “We