“I tried it once. Talking to someone,” he amended. “Remember?” He’d told a teacher at school that he thought he was gay. He was twelve at the time. His parents hadn’t been homophobic—not really—but he hadn’t been ready to tell them. That hadn’t mattered to Frau Schmidt, though. Ella had been there afterward, when Nico had been so angry that he hadn’t cared about coming out to someone else as long as it meant he had someone to talk to. He should’ve just talked to Ella in the first place. Instead, he’d had to deal with Frau Schmidt calling his parents, and coming home to discover that his
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