Hesitantly, Xiao steps into your bedroom. To anyone else, he would look stoic as usual, but you’re his sibling, you know better. Something is bothering him, or at least unnerving him.

“Can I tell you something?” He utters the question quietly, almost as if he didn’t want you to hear. As your younger brother, it’s natural that he seeks your reassurance.

He wants to know if it’s wrong of him to be attracted to other boys. The lump in his throat feels almost suffocating.