Chapter 51

Reiner went home, his heart was heavy in thought as he struggled to accept the feelings he was developing for Brandon. He missed school the next few days and avoided his friends too. He felt his whole world falling to pieces right before his eyes.

He went online and happen to read all the negative and harsh things people write about two people of the same gender being together. All this made him even more scared of his feelings.

He was scared of what will happen if anyone were to find out that he liked a boy. His family might leave him, his schoolmates might bully him and call him names and he wasn't ready for any of that to happen.

"I am perfectly normal," he repeated to himself over and over again in his bed scared to even get up. He covered himself from head to toe and kept chanting this mantra to keep himself sane. The room seemed to be getting smaller and smaller and was soon to crush him.

"Sir, your lunch is here," he heard his butler say.