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He slowly shook his head

"So clearly you have no proble around with another man"

"No, but…"

"But what?"

"Every tiain, "…with another guy, there’s always been a girl there too It’s never one-on-one"

"And one-on-one is bad?"

"I don’t know Maybe" He shrugged helplessly

"You don’t want to think of yourself as gy, is that it?" Jen’s tone was so gentle, and so thick with understanding, that his throat clogged

"I’y," he answered honestly "I love woy"

"Yeah, I noticed" She paused "But you’re into men too"

"Yes"

"So then you’re bi"

A ht, bi Why can’t people just fk whoever they ithout feeling the need to label it or explain it away?"

Jen pointed her finger at him "Ha! Exactly!"

Crap He’d totally walked into that one, hadn’t he?

"Now change the word people to you, and whoever they want to Aidan" When he didn’t respond right away, her blue eyes turned shrewd "Wait asex with him because this is about s for Aidan?"

That uncharacteristic rush of helplessness returned with full force "I don’t know," he ad out with him, I know thatreally well We have a shit-ton in common, he’s easy to talk to So yeah, we’re buddies I can’t fk one ofup with Matt or Ryan or Texas"