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big company, and he was always busy with that.”

“You went to boarding school?” Taylor had never met anyone who went

to one before. It sounded like something that people just read and wrote

about in books.

“I did. My dad had lots of money, so it was quite prestigious, but that

never mattered to me. I didn’t really like it, but I also didn’t not like it. I did

enough to get by. I had enough friends. At first when I came out, there was

some noise about it with the teachers and what not, but after a month,

everyone just accepted it and went right back to not really caring. I think

that everyone knew me well enough by then that it wasn’t a big deal. The

school was strict enough and personal lives didn’t really factor into much of

what went on there.”

Taylor wasn’t sure what the school would have been like. She had this

image in her head from movies about girls behaving badly and getting sent

away and behaving even worse, but she doubted that was how real boarding

schools or private schools or whatever they were worked.

“What does your dad do?”

“That’s a complicated question, since it’s changed so much over the

years, but essentially they sell pools.”

“Pools?”

“Yeah. They put pools into yards. That’s how he got super rich. I’ve just

reaped the benefits of it. I’m a trust fund, silver spoon baby all the way.”

Christina laughed easily about it, like she wasn’t trying to throw those facts

around for any purpose other than stating them.

Taylor found herself relaxing. She’d never expected that Christina

would be so open.

“So?” Christina said. “When did you come out?”

Taylor nearly choked on the juice she’d just sipped. She got it down and

studied her the glass in her hand. “Uh…” She, on the other hand, wasn’t

really into sharing things about herself. She might find it easy to talk to

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