“Tell him what?” I knew what she was asking, but dodging was my best strategy.
“Don’t play dumb. I am asking if you plan on ever telling that hot guy you have the hots for him.”
“Nope.” I shrugged and returned my attention to Edi. She knew better. I could never tell him. If I were a girl, then maybe. I might have gotten rejected, maybe mocked. But I was a boy, which meant I’d be beaten to a pulp if I confessed my feelings to another guy.
I’d seen the news, I knew gay s*x in private had been decriminalized recently. That meant very little. No one was gay out in the open. They knew they needed to keep it hidden.
“That is so sad,” Elena whispered, and I felt tears stinging my eyes. I wasn’t too heartbroken about not being able to tell Edi. He didn’t even know I existed. But the thought of
