Bilal wanted to call after Carmella and explain that he wasn't pleasuring himself. Though he was not human, he had grown into adulthood around them. He knew that men did such things but only when they were in private—unless pornographic movie was playing. Then it might be acceptable to do so in front of others. At least Lawrence had seemed to think this way, though Raj—who surely became aroused, too—frowned on the practice of self-pleasuring around others.

Bilal felt a ...