Malakai's POV
I have spent the whole day sleeping and watching TV. De'Andrae invited me to his family cookout only because I mentioned it. I don't want him doing me any favors nor do I need his pity. Even though I have made it clear I have feelings for him, I still think it's best we stay friends for a while because I haven't really told him everything about myself.
For one, he doesn't know that I'm intersex, which is how I met Areya years ago. I was 18 and pregnant, while she was visiting for missing her period which I thought was a pregnancy scare but she said she wasn't sexually active.
Ever since then, we've been close. Imagine a friendship between an 18 year old and a 13 year old. Anyway, so over the past month, De'Andrae and I have gotten close which resulted in me seeing him as a
