Chapter 2Wes guessed he had just failed some kind of test with Noel and he didn’t like the feeling at all.
Though he really didn’t think he owed an explanation, and maybe that was his error, he decided to try to further explain himself.
“Look, my family…they don’t exactly know about my, er, change in sexuality.”
Noel looked up from the fish he had been studying as though it had answers to life. He had a way of looking right through Wes that made him not exactly uncomfortable, but definitely vulnerable. Noel’s eyes were a particularly striking blue shade with tiny flecks of gold that always made Wes want to drown in them. That together with his mop of golden curls made him look a bit like a Botticelli angel, though Wes knew from personal experience how far Noel was from that.
“They don’
