“Is this setup fine to you?” Drake asked me while we were hanging out in his room. “What do you mean?” I asked him. “This, that we’re here, and I… I can’t take you out, at least not yet.” To think of it, the past few weeks, we’ve only been meeting secretly here, or in my room, or somewhere secluded. He’s not ready to come out yet, not when his reputation before all of this was a cool young brother of a cool varsity player, and I understand him in that part, it’s not that easy. “I’m fine with this.” But deep inside, I’m wishing that maybe soon, he’ll finally have the guts to hold my hands in public, or tell his mom Gina about me, because that would be so sweet. “How about we go somewhere far?” He suggested. “Far like where? And like a date date?” “Yes, like a date date, I don’t know

