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really didn’t want to be alone with the guy, but he had to admit he was burning up with curiosity.
    As it turned out, so was Will.
    When the door closed behind them, and the outside world was muted, Will turned on him.
    “Why didn’t you tell my dad and Mrs. Hin what happened?”
    “What, you wanted to be outed?” Micah asked.
    Will looked horrified. “No!”
    “Then there’s your answer.”
    “But I don’t understand. I’ve seen the way everyone treats you here. You’re the star footy player. You should be treated like a jock god. But no one will go near you.”
    “Carl will. But I’m starting to think he’s a masochist.”
    “And you had your chance to not be alone, to have someone who would be in the same boat. But you didn’t do it.”
    “You really are stupid, aren’t you?” Micah sat down heavily upon one of those godawful plastic chairs specially made to torture students. “That’s the reason why I didn’t out you. Plus I don’t believe in outing people against their will, Will.”
    He was trying to make it sound like a joke, but he just sounded flippant.
    “Well, aren’t you the fucking saint of the year.”
    “Look, don’t get pissy with me just because you’re scared Daddy will find out you’re queer.”
    Will’s fists curled by his side.
    Micah jumped up. “Come on, you want to hit me again? Won’t make anything I’ve said not true. But you can just go back to bullying people anonymously on Facebook because they’re doing what you won’t.”
    But Will didn’t hurt him. He just stood there, and he didn’t blink.
    Micah recognised that for what it was. If you didn’t blink, you didn’t cry. But he was also done covering up for Will and feeling sorry for him. He had enough of his own dramas to worry about.
    He was still thinking that when Will leaned in and kissed him.
    Confused, Micah just stood there for a moment. And found himself starting to kiss Will back.
    This was the most ridiculous fucking thing to ever happen to him. Here he was, kissing the guy who had thumped him unconscious only a few days ago, and enjoying it! And to think he had signed an online petition for Chris Brown to stay away from Rihanna.
    Will’s kiss was furious, but earnest and eager. Micah knew, just knew , that it was Will’s first ever kiss with a guy.
    But it was so wrong. So wrong. And on so many levels.
    Least of which, they could be discovered any second.
    Micah broke away, and Will immediately started stammering an apology.
    “This is really fucked up,” Micah told him.
    “I told you, I’m sorry!”
    Micah shook his head. “Not good enough. You need to figure out who you are, and not fuck up other people along the way.”
    Will stared at the floor, unable to meet Will’s eyes. “I was jealous of you.”
    “You also seem to have the hots for me.”
    This time Will looked at him. “Not really. You’re just the only gay guy I know in real life.”
    “Well, thanks, punch me out and then stab me in the heart.” Micah could not be Will’s counsellor. That had to be reserved for someone with more sense, more ability to help him, and maybe someone he hadn’t knocked out.
    “I’m—”
    “Sorry, yeah, I know. I mean it. Get help, Will. And just wait two minutes after I leave here. You don’t want people getting any ideas.”
    His hand was already on the door when he was called back by Will saying his name.
    “Are you going to tell anyone?” Will asked, his voice breaking.
    Micah felt the sting of his own tears. He couldn’t take on anybody else’s feelings right then, and that meant he couldn’t take on their pain either, he just couldn’t. “No. I said I wouldn’t, didn’t I?”
    He didn’t wait for any thanks, and he wasn’t even sure he would have gotten any. He exited the surreal world of teen angst drama that seemed so much more sexy and adult on stupid American television shows, back into the more surreal world of drama that was high school. At least that didn’t