By the time Tucker got home for the start of school, his house had gotten even worse. As he prepared for his senior year, he was a nervous wreck half the time. There was so much he felt he had to hide: his living conditions and being homosexual. Only two things, actually, but both were heavy on their own. Tucker asked Savannah to “go steady” the night before the first day of school, because his Uncle Walter had told him he should, when they’d talked about how important it was for a boy to have s*x in his last year of high school. Part of Tucker believed doing that would make him not homosexual. He hung his hat on it, so to speak, and figured it as just a matter of time before he was normal.
“I want to show you something.” Savannah took him by the wrist and led him to her bedroom. Tucker t
