Page 44 of How to Bite Your Neighbor and Win a Wager

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HotMouth

Being real here, they kind of are? I never dated in high school for the kind of obvious reason of being utterly terrified of human contact, and I only went to college for a semester before I got turned. Most people don’t want to date a vampire.

LordOfTheWin

Most people should absolutely want to date a Vincent though.

HotMouth

I’m blushing.

LordOfTheWin

I’m serious, dude. You’re thoughtful and funny and when you actually shower you look like some dark avenging knight who happens to also trip over his own shoes when he forgets they’re by the stairs. You would be a catch for any guy.

Any guy but Wesley, apparently. But Vincent’s cheeks were burning up now and the journalist across from him kept deliberately avoiding looking his way.

HotMouth

That’s kind of sweet, actually.

He added a peach emoji at the end out of panic, then immediately pressed onward with the first question he could think of.

HotMouth

You’ve been living your bisexual bliss for a while now then?

That was the weirdest way for me to state that fuck.

What I meant was, you’ve been out for a while?

LordOfTheWin

Yeah my bisexual bliss has been in everyone’s face for as long and loud as humanly possible.

That tracked with the rest of Wesley; Vincent couldn’t imagine a scenario where he hadn’t been this loud and proud about who he was in all facets of his life, even if it hurt him to do it.

HotMouth

Personal question, but, did your parents support you?

LordOfTheWin

Dad’s wishy-washy on things but he’s mostly fucked off anyway so he doesn’t count.

Hold on essay incoming.

So it wasn’t perfect at first, with mom. I was fourteen when I told her.

She grew up Catholic, and there’s a lot of queer Catholics don’t get me wrong, but there’s also a lot of pressure and bias and distrust and some outright hatred there, you feel me?

HotMouth

Yeah I feel you.

(Shit am I not supposed to be interrupting?)

(Please carry on the essay.)

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