“Is that a thing you can do here?” I asked. “Do you want to tell them so he won’t bother anyone else?”
Shawn shrugged. “If he gets rejected enough, he’ll probably just leave. Or someone will give him the slap he deserves and then he’ll leave.” He relaxed his posture, smiling once more. “He’s not important. Hi! It’s nice to meet you.”
I smiled back. “Same to you. Um…how do you know Ben?” It was the only common ground we had, other than both being gay, and I didn’t know enough about being gay to have a conversation on the subject.
“Met on a dating app, actually. Matched well, but after chatting and trying to decide if it was worth going on a date we determined our future goals don’t line up that well, but we were into enough of the same stuff to hang out as friends instead.”
“Oh. What ki
