AVEL
“Is what true?” I asked, though my mind was already racing with one possibility—the one truth I was not sure I was ready to share with Olivia.
She wasn’t just some random student. Our families were in business together, so my parents were familiar with hers, and if anyone in her family talked, it would filter back to mine. The thought of them discovering I was gay through rumors tied a knot in my chest.
Fortunately, that was not what she was talking about.
“That you’re trying out for the baseball team,” she said quickly, and relief broke over me like sunlight through storm clouds.
“Yeah,” I replied just as fast. “It’s true.”
Her face lit up instantly, her eyes going wide with a kind of joy that made my stomach twist—not in a bad way, but in the way it did when someone liked you
