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    “I once thought that you had no idea how hurtful it was to have your feelings be called sinful. As if loving someone was a moral failure, a wrongdoing,” Barth says, measuring his words, his jaw clenching as he forces himself to be vulnerable with Tanrak.

    Again and again and again.

    “But you do know, don’t you? You have always known, deep in your heart. It hurts you just the same as it hurts me. But Tanrak—”

    Tanrak hears the hitch in his voice, the waver that indicates how much Barth is trying to hide beneath his composure.

    “I can’t take much more of this,” Barth admits, his tone hushed as if it physically pains him to admit this truth, this reality.

    In which Barth pushes, Tanrak pulls and shame undoes what love had once built up. There’s only so much Barth can take before the hurt becomes overbearing. There’s only so much Tanrak can take before his heart has to let go.
    ___

    Two boys. Two hearts on the line. Neither escapes unscathed.

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