There was no suspicion about Ryan Vaughn among our peers in the student body because Ryan was a dude, a bro, chill. He just resembled a cool loner rather than someone secretly marginalized but I knew that he was playing a game by lying low until he could get out of high school, escape L.A., find a college far away and start over, reinventing himself, like me. That was his plan. That was my plan.
