He only looked for a moment, but that headline on her screen sliced straight through his composure, leaving him replaying every offhand remark and half-joke he’d brushed aside for years. He tried to shrug it off, to believe it was just curiosity, maybe even concern, yet her earlier comment about him being the smallest wouldn’t stop echoing. By midnight, the weight of unspoken fears and old shame had grown impossib… Continues…
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