Chapter 19Danny calls his parents first. “Sweetheart,” his mother says, her voice heartbreakingly soft. “Are you okay?”
“I…” Danny is, for the first time in his life, lost for words. “I don’t know,” he says, defaulting to honesty. “I, I don’t—”
“Take a deep breath,” his father says. “Everything’s going to be just fine, I promise you.”
“This isn’t how I wanted to tell you.” Danny’s eyes are filling with tears, and he can feel his breath starting to hitch.
“Oh, darling, don’t worry about us even a little bit,” his mother says. “You could have hired a skywriter and written it in the clouds and we’d be just fine.”
Danny sniffles, wiping his eyes. “Is this the part where you tell me you’ve always known and have just been waiting for me to be ready?”
“No,” his dad says. “We didn’t know. Bu
