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“I care about him,” he said again, firmer.
Still not enough. Not quite true enough.
He exhaled through his nose and let his head drop forward. “Yeah,” he mumbled into his chest. “Okay. I like him.”
That landed in him like heat. Not panic, not sickening shock. Warm. Clean. Real.
He sat there a long time with that in him, like a live current.
For the first time since the porch the night of Frypan’s party, he didn’t feel confused about himself.
He just felt scared he’d already broken the thing he wanted.
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College, Love and Trauma. What could go wrong?