Chapter 6

Tonight, he was going to be with Billy. Would Billy ask him if he was gay? And what if Billy became curious about his cultural heritage—what could he answer?

He wasn’t gay, but he wasn’t straight. He wasn’t white, but he wasn’t a full-blooded Mohawk.

Who the hell was he?

“Oh, is he the young man who called so late last night?” Aunt Diane asked.

“It wasn’t thatlate.”

“He sounded really…effeminate. How old is he?” Aunt Diane peered at him, her sharp brown eyes zeroing in on his face from across the table.

Was she going to start again?

“I don’t know how old he is.” Xavier had lost his appetite. Effeminate? What did that mean anyway? “Probably my age or something.”

“Well, at least you’re not going out with that grease ball Sergio. You know he got Maria pregnant last year and asked her to get an abortion? Can you believe that?”

Xavier didn’t like Sergio, but calling an Italian a grease ball? His aunt was always saying crap like that. What did she really think of him?