Chapter 131

“Say no more, invite him to come.” I nodded. “So Richie’s cousin.”

“Yeah. We met at another wedding, in fact, two years ago.”

“Well, we know he’s a good person.”

“Wow, and if he’s mean to me, are you going to beat him up?” my friend whispered, raising a dark eyebrow in a flattering gesture. I laughed before he continued. “Okay, okay. Enough of the gay jokes, I don’t want you to feel uncomfortable.”

“For my sake, don’t be shy. I’m glad to see you so happy.”

Actually, yes, Ami seemed to have loosened up to a different level since we left the bathrooms. We headed toward the departure lounge to check that our flight schedule had not been modified again.

“Well, if we don’t start by accepting ourselves and each other, just as we are, how can we expect the rest of the world to accept us when the time comes for them to know us?” he said, with an incisive tone. “You know? About ‘getting to know each other.’ This topic is being discussed more and more frequ