Chapter 3: Chapter 3

Immediately Calvin fired back,“No,I thought you were an arrogant asshole.”

Brock’s face fell and Calvin felt as though he’d got one back from all thoseyears ago.“I just am still really sensitive about those days.They weren’texactly happy times for me.”

“No.”Brock shook his head then looked Calvin straight in the eyes.“Guessthey weren’t.Sorry.”

“Every day at school was a battle to remain hidden,to blend in,to stay below the radar,just so one of your jock buddies wouldn’t notice me,trip me,push me into a locker or use me as a punching bag.”

Brock looked embarrassed.“I kinda remember that.”

“And then they’d brag about beating up the school fag?”

Brock looked down at his half-empty bottle.His silence was answer enough.

“We lived in different worlds back in high school.Everybody knew you and how many home runs or whatever you had hit the previous season.Whereas no one,apart from my fellow‘drama geeks,’”he sketched quotation marks in the air,“knew about me.And that was just fine.”