“Mom called the hospitals looking for you,” I said.
I know.
He kept your room exactly the same for six years.
I know.
I thought you were dead.
He lowered his head.
I know.
Finally, my anger came to the surface.
You can’t keep saying that.
He started crying.
I was ashamed.
“You didn’t have to go back a perfect person,” I said. You just had to come back alive.
Noah was angry too.
His father knew he had an aunt and a cousin, but he had never told him. I couldn’t understand why Michael had hidden the truth for so many years.
“I brought my boyfriend home to meet his mother,” Noah said, “and it turned out that she was my aunt.
Tyler and Noah ended their relationship immediately after discovering they were cousins.
For a while, they avoided seeing each other. Finally, however, they began to speak again, not as boyfriends, but as two people who tried to understand the strange family story they had just discovered.
