SWEET DEBAUCHERY: AN M/M COLLEGE, CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE
Even the animal is holding onto something from that time.
I sit on the fence for a while, just watching him. Then I keep walking until I reach the open field. I lie down in the grass, staring up at the vast sky.
My mind won’t stop replaying the room. I had snooped further, opening drawers, lifting stacks of old papers. There were more photos, deliberately hidden at the back of one drawer. In some of them Danny is wearing a dress, soft makeup bringing out the sharp angles of his face, lipstick a bold pop of color. He looks genuinely happy, radiant, even, smiling at the camera like he’s finally allowed to take up space. And Levi… Levi is looking at him with this quiet, all-consuming devotion.