Anton never thought anyone would ever want to date him. Everyone knows nobody wants a transgender boyfriend, right? So he's as shocked as anyone when seemingly-straight Jude Kalinowski asks him out, and doesn't appear to be joking. The only problem is ... well, Jude doesn't actually know. Anton can see how this will play out: Jude is a nice guy, and nice guys finish last. And Anton is transgender, and transgender people don't get happy endings. If he tells Jude, it might destroy everything. And if Jude tells anyone else ... it will.

Spy Stuff

So yeah, Anton wasn’t above admitting he was in a bit of a mood on Monday morning. He didn’t want to be there. He didn’t want to work on this stupid labels project, with Emma or with anybody else, and he didn’t want another lecture from Miss Taylor about how nobody should judge anybody else. Everyone judged. Everyone. And it was never going to stop, and he’d never be exactly who and what he wanted to be, and that was the end of it.


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