Chapter 5: “Kiss me.” Luca hadn’t always been so lucky when it came to this whole gay thing. His mother was Italian and his father was from an enormous Yorkshire family that generally thought being gay was up there in the wrong stakes with being a paedophile. Luca had had a crush on Tav from the moment he first saw him, but they’d only been seven or eight then, and Luca hadn’t initially recognised it for what it was. When he had, it had been—in his then-thirteen-year-old mind—the worst thing that had ever happened to him. Aaron Kowalski had helped. Not that Aaron knew that. He hadn’t done anything. Luca certainly hadn’t told him. But Aaron Kowalski was as straight as they came—just like it had been Tav-and-Luca for years now, it had been Aaron-and-Emily for even longer. Aaron liked girl