Ryan skirts his mother’s questions about Dante. Yes, they just met. Yes, he’s in the skate club. Espinosa, that’s his last name, that’s all Ryan knows. He works at the skate shop in town—no, Ryan doesn’t remember seeing him there before. If he had, he would’ve gone down to Later Skater more often, every day in fact, but he doesn’t tell his mother this. She doesn’t know he’s like that. He personally doesn’t plan to inform her, either. She must notice he doesn’t date girls—he was never Mr. Popularity in high school and he’s not one of those guys with the drop-dead looks, not like Dante is—but she’s never said anything, she’s never come out and asked him if he’s gay. He thinks she doesn’t really want to know. That’s okay, though, because he doesn’t really want to tell her.
Actually, he doesn
