Chapter 21
Life didn’t change much over the next few days, at least not on the surface. Lennon could have wished it were different. He remembered the days when he could walk down the street with Ben, holding his hand, and all he’d have to worry about would be getting into a fight. Those worries had been significant at the time, but right now Lennon would kill for his biggest problem to be someone calling him a fag and threatening to throw a punch.
For one thing, Jamal Bannerman was still out there somewhere. He was still in Boston, for crying out loud. He would exploit any weakness, and Ben was a weakness. Lennon was a weakness for Ben, too. Lennon couldn’t quite tell which side Kaden was on and he didn’t want to find out because Kaden caught them in a compromising situation.
They had t
