Chapter 14
Things were…normal, after that.
They’d stayed out the rest of the day, just sort of meandering around Central London, and then the next day at school, Jude was just…Jude. He didn’t mention it at all, even in private, like he was giving Anton space…and yet he kind of wasn’t either, because he kept doing that arm-over-shoulders hug thing and giving Anton rather obvious glances in their shared classes.
Anton loved it.
Mum and Ellen would say he was supposed to talk about it more, but…he liked the not talking about it, too. He liked that Jude had kind of…not shrugged and ignored it, exactly, but he didn’t seem to feel this urge to ask a million questions and probe into the way Anton felt. Anton knew how he felt. He didn’t need Jude to psychoanalyse him, too, because people alway
