Reggie interrupted, “Don’t get us wrong, we love Kitty and couldn’t imagine life without her, but Jason got a raw deal from his folks. I’d dig them up and beat their dead bodies until they came to life and then I’d beat them to death again, if I could.”
Bert agreed.
Zach looked from Bert to Reggie. “Blood thirsty bastards, aren’t you?”
Reggie answered in earnest. “He is our friend. You don’t know the half of what he went through to keep it together. Mrs. Schwartz doesn’t even have any idea. We went to their church—they used to make fun of him during the service. I stopped going. If the minister let those people get away with that, then that was no place I wanted to be. They wouldn’t let him date and made him ashamed to be gay. He’s grown out of a lot of that now, but God dammit, they ca
