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I am desperately unhappy with the way Noah treats Javier. If he just told him....

And then, unexpectedly, Detective O’Shea rushed into the room, gun drawn.

Of course he does ;-)

"Is he talking about that very pretty boy you were trying to pick up?”
“I wasn’t trying to pick him up, Mother. I’m not gay. How many times do I have to tell you that?”
“It’s all right, dear. You know I love the sissy boys and the sissy boys love me.”

“Is all of that stuff legal?”
“Legal to sell,” he said. “I’m not sure how legal it is to use.”
“Is what I’m doing illegal?”
“Not sure. But I think as long as she confesses to murder, you’ll be fine.”

“Listen, about the lube—” And wouldn’t you know it, a woman who was clearly a mom walked up at just that moment. She was renting The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast.


I love Noah's issue with selling lube in his store ;-))

“I am actually in love with Billy. Believe it or not.”
Since I thought Billy might be a murderer, congratulations didn’t seem in order. I just smiled.

“When you don’t tell people what’s going on with you, you’re isolating yourself."

Noah is doing nothing but isolate himself. If he didn't run into dead bodies every few weeks he'd spend his life sorting VHS cassettes and doing nothing else. He only does things that his friends drag him to. It's so sad.

I reminded myself that figuring him out didn’t matter. I wasn’t going to get involved with him, so why he suddenly looked like a sex god wasn’t important. In fact, I really needed to get away from him. Without so much as a “see you later” I turned and started walking toward Trunks.

God, Noah, you're such a fool.

Now he went ahead and asked me, “Why? Why are you and I a bad idea?”

Not sure how to handle this best from Noah's point of view, but I'd still say be honest and just tell him. Javier is clearly interested so he should know ...

I love Javier and Noah so much together...but why do I get the feeling that they're like Buck and Eddie from 911? Lots of sexual tension but never getting together.