Chapt3r Six
WHO WOULD HAVE thought dates could be so nerve-wracking? I wondered how people managed going on them. I was a jittery mess for the most part. Holding Trevor’s hand, walking side by side, sitting with him in a restaurant, going to a movie.... Man, that was challenging. How did normal people put themselves through that? The nervousness, the sweat, the fear of saying something wrong. How did they navigate that again?
It was too much of an effort to string two words together, so I stuck to monosyllabic answers. I didn’t speak unless asked, and grunts and jerks of my head became my best communication options. Trevor went through it all with a smirk on his face, and indecent touching whenever he could. That made it even worse for me. Especially during the movie. The theater was not
