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I spit out a shocked laugh.
“Sorry.”
“Don’t be. I started it.”
He looks like he’s thinking something over real hard. He makes his mind up and says, “by the way, I’m gay.”
“Um, okay? I kinda guessed that with the whole boyfriend thing.”
“I just mean, if it’s gonna be a problem-”
I hold my hands up. “Not a problem. Don’t give a shit.”
He looks like I just slapped him. What did he want me to do? Throw a parade.Oh Jesus Christ, hi Papa, what are you doing in there again?
“Just… maybe if you meet a guy, go back to his place.”
His cheeks flush.
“Not because you’re gay, I don’t bring girls back here either. Friends – fine. Hook-ups – go somewhere else.”
“Okay,” he shrugs. “I think I can manage that.”
“Great.”
“Great.”
“So do you want the place or not?”
He blinks at me hard a few times. “I’ll… have to think about it, if that’s okay.”
“Sure, just don’t take too long, I’m kinda in a hurry here. Some people don’t have rich parents to pay their rent.”
He lets out a loud, brash laugh so unlike anything I’d imagine coming from him.
“Neither do I.”
“Okay then.”
“Okay then.”
Why does he keep just repeating everything I say?
I show him out, closing the door a little louder behind him than I’d meant to.
Holy shit. What the fuck was that?
5
STEFANOS
Alice jumps up the second I walk through the door.
“So? How was it?”
I shrug. “It was… fine.”
“What? What’s that face?”