Chapter 21: Chapter 21

In that kiss, Del felt all that pent-up need Justin had for someone to just take care of him, for once. Frankly, Del wasn’t sure how much of it was actually desire for Del and how much was situational and the fact that he was so young.

Then he managed to fuck up by calling Justin “kid.” While he was young—around the same age as Abigail, for fuck’s sake—he wasn’t a kid. The way Del felt him pull away mentally and physically felt horrible.

When Justin couldn’t seem to look him in the eye, Del did the only thing that seemed right; he kissed Justin again. The almost-startled little noise that Justin let out somehow went straight into the pit of Del’s stomach, and he made a hasty exit.

He couldn’t tell his sister about what had just happened. Yet she’d somehow, most likely, dig out the information from him anyway. If he just managed not to video call her, maybe she wouldn’t read him like an open book then? Ugh.

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