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watching Zach Teagan swim the fly, and then all that talk about puckers and peckers and lips and cocks, he didn’t stand a chance at resisting the urge when it hit. Even so, he probably wouldn’t be able to look Alex in the eye for a while. Or Zach for that matter.
    One thing he did know was that Alex was someone special. He lay in bed for nearly an hour, trying to write a poem for Alex. He’d written one for every other person who was special in his life. He was determined to write one for Alex too. He scanned the dictionary for words beginning with the letter X until inspiration hit.
     
    A knight in shining armor, like
    L ancelot du Lac
    E scort me to
    X anadu
     
     
    “W HAT ’ S that on your wrist, Mason?” his mom said the next night during dinner.
    Lucas glanced at his brother’s wrist and saw what appeared to be a hemp bracelet.
    “Oh, that. Becca gave it to me.”
    “Becca from the swim team?” his dad said.
    “Yeah.”
    “It looks handmade,” his mom said. “That’s so sweet. She must really like you.”
    He groaned. “Yeah, she’s like, totally in love with me.”
    His mom smiled. “You must like her if you’re wearing her bracelet.”
    “She’s okay, I guess.”
    “Mhmm. In Mason terms, that means you’re totally in love with her too,” she teased.
    Lucas had been quiet until then. He didn’t know what made him do it, but he blurted out, “How do you know when you’re in love?”
    His family turned to look at him.
    “Not you too?” his mom said with raised eyebrows.
    “Hypothetically speaking.”
    She smiled. “That’s a tough question.”
    “Duh. You just know,” said Mason.
    “Sometimes,” she agreed. “But it can be confusing your first time.”
    Mason cocked his head. “Okay, then how do you know?”
    “Well,” she said, looking back and forth between her boys. “When you first fall in love with someone, you usually feel like you want to be with that person all the time. You have a hard time thinking about anyone or anything else, and you think all the silly, quirky habits that person has are cute. You care more about that person than yourself. You feel happy when they’re happy, sad when they’re sad.”
    That was pretty much the same spiel he’d read on the Internet in his attempts to discover the difference between love and lust. If that was the criteria for being in love, he wasn’t in it. He liked Alex a lot, but it wasn’t that all-consuming feeling she was describing.
    “Is it different for boys than it is for girls?” Lucas said.
    His mom glanced at his dad, who shrugged. He clearly had no intention of chiming in.
    “When a boy falls in love with someone, yes, he can experience all of those feelings,” she said. “But it probably is a little different for boys than it is for girls.”
    Mason nodded. “Girls want romance. Boys want sex.”
    “That’s on oversimplification. Boys can want romance just as much as girls, sweetie.”
    Mason wiggled his eyebrows. “And girls can want sex just as much as boys?”
    His mom looked flustered. “We were talking about love, not sex. They’re two completely different things.”
    “They’re not completely different are they?” Lucas said.
    “It’s easy to confuse the two, but they are very different.” There was a pause while she regrouped. “Now, honey, is there something you want to tell us?”
    Did she think he was having sex? Why hadn’t he kept his stupid mouth shut? And why were they talking about sex at the dinner table? In front of his dad, who looked extremely uncomfortable?
    Lucas tried to formulate an answer while his mom continued with her questioning.
    “You know, if you’re seeing someone, we’d love to meet—the person.”
    Lucas guessed what she was doing, why she was speaking so strangely. She was giving him an opening, but he hadn’t planned on having a coming out discussion tonight , and he didn’t know if he was ready for it.
    “Or is this person someone we already know?”