Yup. Because age was the issue, right? Not the fact that the junk that dangled between his legs was the same kind that was between my own?

"Oh." He shook his head. "No. I dunno why. Was thinking a lot older than that. It - it was - " He trailed off.

Every time I blinked, his image would distort. Sometimes he'd seem nearer. Others further away. Other times just a mess of pixels. The same question from earlier came back to haunt me: Why Blake?

There were a lot of answers to that question; I had no idea what the answer was.

Maybe because he was gay. Or because...