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chapter 39-The cost of Truth 1
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Chapter 61 – The Quiet AfterwardsThe first thing Ethan noticed was the quiet.Not the peaceful kind. The kind that made your ears ring. The kind that echoed through you when you’d lived too long with noise.He stood in front of a classroom of twenty-two students, bright eyes, notebooks open, laptops humming. A few whispered, a few smiled. But most just stared at him like he wasn’t real.He cleared his throat.“Welcome to Queer Storytelling: Writing Identity in a Changing World.”He waited.Silence.Then a voice from the back. A girl with close-cut hair and dark lipstick:“You’re the one from the livestream. The love letter guy.”A few students nodded. Someone clapped once before stopping awkwardly.Ethan blinked. “Yeah. I guess... that’s me.”The class warmed slowly.He told them about narrative voice, about writing as survival, about shame as a story passed down that you didn’t ask to inherit.But he also told them about beauty. About joy. About how sometimes, the stories we’re most
Our love to hide chapter 60- and still,I choose you
The lake was still. Sunlight flickered through the trees, glinting off the surface like shards of memory. The breeze smelled of earth and summer and something old, something sacred. Ethan stood at the edge of the dock, shoes off, toes grazing the wood, heart full. Nathan stood behind him, hands in his pockets, watching in silence. It had been months since they’d stood here last. But it felt like a lifetime. This was where it all began. Where they touched hands in the dark. Where they first kissed like it was a sin. Where they broke and bled and buried every part of themselves they thought the world couldn’t handle. And now? Now they returned not as fugitives but as husbands. “I used to hate this place,” Ethan said quietly. Nathan stepped beside him. “Why?” “Because it knew everything,” Ethan whispered. “It saw every version of me. The liar. The coward. The boy who wanted things he wasn’t supposed to want.” Nathan looked out over the water. “And now?” Ethan smiled faint
Our love to hide 59- Homecoming
The house looked smaller than Ethan remembered.Maybe it was because he wasn’t afraid of it anymore.The porch, once a place of whispered goodbyes and hidden glances, now basked in golden afternoon light. A new coat of paint. A flowering vine crawling up the side. The front door opened, as if waiting.Nathan stood beside him, keys in hand.“Are you sure you’re ready for this?” he asked.Ethan smiled. “I think I’ve been ready since the day we left.”Nathan opened the door.The inside smelled like lemon oil and freshly baked bread.Vanessa had insisted on cooking. Isabelle brought wine. Sarah showed up with homemade cookies and a cooler full of overpriced sparkling water.They’d all arrived before Ethan and Nathan, insisting on setting up themselves.By the time Ethan walked into the kitchen, the table was full of food, candles flickering softly, and laughter already echoing through the halls.He stopped in the doorway, breath catching.This house, this place that had seen them at their
Our love to hide 58-House of mirrors
The studio lights were blinding.Ethan adjusted the mic clipped to his collar, his fingers trembling slightly despite the calming voice in his earpiece. “Five minutes, Mr. Hale. You live with Dr. Lillian from The Conversation and a rotating panel of voices. It's a roundtable, but you have the final word segment. Just be yourself.”Right. Himself.That used to be easy.Before “himself” became a trending topic.Nathan sat beside him, dressed simply in a navy shirt and blazer, his expression unreadable but calm. A kind of practiced stillness Ethan recognized an armor Nathan used when the world stared too long.The roundtable host, Dr. Lillian Monroe, a respected therapist-turned-commentator, gave them both a brief nod as she finished greeting the others.Three guests sat across the glossy table from them:A conservative family advocate with a stiff smile and a long history of “defending traditional values.”A queer historian with rainbow-rimmed glasses and a stack of notes.An ex-priest
Our love to hide chapter 57- Broken Men lie loudest
The leak dropped at midnight.No warning. No hints.Just a sudden post on a tech ethics blog, barely known outside activist circles, titled:“The Mask of Elijah Greene: How a Tech Prince Became a Predator of Silence”At first, no one believed it. The screenshots looked too detailed. The email threads are too brutal.But within hours, it spread like wildfire.Not because it was sensational but because it was true.Sarah sat frozen on her bed, the screen lighting up her face, horror reflected in her wide, tear-rimmed eyes.There they were emails between Elijah and a silent investor. Plans to fabricate queer harassment accounts. Threads showing his team targeting LGBTQ+ influencers to "redirect attention" from his father's disgrace.Worse: names.Names she knew.Artists. Friends. Former classmates.Ethan’s name appeared, too. “Break his back online. Make it look organic. He can’t be the hero if no one’s watching.”The bile in her throat rose. She’d defended Elijah to people. Had introdu
Our love to hide chapter 56-No Longer Afraid
It started with a whisper.A few shares. A handful of comments. A couple hundred views.Then, within hours, the dam broke.By morning, Ethan’s face was everywhere.His voice trembling but clear echoed across screens, timelines, and hearts. Not as a scandal. Not as a cautionary tale. But as something deeper. Braver.A man reclaiming his truth.Ethan sat curled up on the couch, a blanket around his shoulders, scrolling through the storm he’d just unleashed. “I’ve never cried over a stranger’s love before. This is what honesty looks like.”“He said what so many of us are too scared to admit. God, I wish I had his courage.”“To Ethan Hale, thank you for not erasing yourself to make others comfortable.”His post was trending under #StillILoveYou.Vanessa sat across from him, mouth half-open as she read her own feed. “This is... massive. You’ve hit three million views in less than twelve hours.”Ethan blinked. “What?”“Buzzfeed reposted it. So did Out Magazine. And GLAAD. A bunch of celebr
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