somethings up?

I went straight to work, Mars never caught up to me, and I cleaned for an hour straight until Ms. Mary came up to me and said,

"Kaca no one can find young master anywhere, and we all know you have reached friend level with him, so do you know where he is?"

"I just reached friend level with him, but I can try," I responded.

she nodded and took up my chores and I went to look for Mars. I checked his room hoping it would be easy but he wasn't there, I even checked his closet. I then walked to secret spots I have seen him use before but he wasn't in any of them, then I remembered something. I rushed out to the garden to where my mother and father are and walked to the part not visible to the windows of the estate and there he was sitting between the wall and a bush with dads vines hanging down over him. He weakly looked up at me with tears in his eyes and shaking. I sat next to him and pulled him over into a hug, he put his head on my shoulder and took a few trembling breaths in.

"Wanna talk about it?" I asked him.

"no... yes... promise not to tell?" He responded.

"I promise, want a secret in return?"

"actually yes that would be interesting."

"then I will."

"let me share first?"

"grounds all yours." I said with a small chuckle.

he gave me a small chuckle and then started to tell me what was wrong,

"... I'm gay and I have someone I truly love, but you know better than anyone how it is here, same sex relationships aren't "correct", and I don't want to marry buuut I can't act like that, not in front of father. If I did he would murder me or some poor servant to teach me a lesson."

He went silent and just stared at the ground between his legs and his hands still shook slightly.

"you could run away you know." I said.

"how? not like anywhere else would accept us, plus he is from a high ranking house himself," he responded.

"there's told to be a continent where Exiles have a queen and you can love anyone you want to."

"how do you know of this?"

"stories travel fast through the exiles."

"how would we get there?"

"your dad's trading vessels, at least one of them."

"how long have you been thinking about this?"

"... surprisingly not long. I've been content and came to terms that I was going to be treated horribly from the beginning, but you're not one of us being treated horribly, you're one of them and still being treated horribly."

"when could we leave?"

"after the party to many eyes on you now."

"they might stay on me afterwards a bit to..."

"why?"

"I'm gonna pick you... if that's ok with you?"

I blinked a bit dumbfounded and just nodded.

After a bit he finally said,

"Sooo what's your secret Kaca?"

"Oh yes... I forgotten I promised a secret back. My secret is that I once loved a servant boy... and still do," I responded.

"who?"

"the one that was around specifically to be your friend when you were little..."

"But he's... I'm sorry."

"Hey, he could still be alive somewhere, no one saw him killed."

"True, then for you I will hope he's still alive."