Gotcha. I won't tell him I know. Just like you won't tell Min I told you this whole thing happened shirtless! This whole conversation? Totally confidential, just you and me and no one else.
[Because that is definitely, absolutely how it works. Ryan can trust Wu with Min's stuff and it hasn't at all backfired on him recently due to Trench shenanigans. Ryan has evidently learned absolutely nothing.]
Seriously, none of this was your fault. I'm the one who didn't fess up in the first place, and I'm the one who didn't share how much my world sucks about this kind of thing until it was too late. I should be apologizing to you here.
[There may have been casual mention here or there of how he couldn't always be open, or how gay marriage wasn't a thing, but he entirely skipped over "there's even more stigma because people are getting sick and dying" because he didn't want to think about it more than he had to. There was no reason for Wu to assume things were that bad.]
Ha! Thanks, man. It's still so wild to think about? If either of us had said anything we could have been like, secret high school sweethearts!
[ Circle of trust, Wu trusts Ryan implicitly, despite everything. It's partially his own naiveté and desperation to have a friend, and partially that Ryan is pretty trustworthy as far as he's seen ]
Well, that's-- that's okay! I know you don't like to talk about the tough stuff. I get it, I totally do. There's plenty of stuff I don't want to talk about. [ DO YOU?! ] I get it, buddy! Don't you worry.
[ He sighs wistfully at that ] That would have been so romantic! But, at least it didn't take long-- at all! Wow, that's something, isn't it? I mean, why wouldn't he be totally into you? You're the best!
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[Because that is definitely, absolutely how it works. Ryan can trust Wu with Min's stuff and it hasn't at all backfired on him recently due to Trench shenanigans. Ryan has evidently learned absolutely nothing.]
Seriously, none of this was your fault. I'm the one who didn't fess up in the first place, and I'm the one who didn't share how much my world sucks about this kind of thing until it was too late. I should be apologizing to you here.
[There may have been casual mention here or there of how he couldn't always be open, or how gay marriage wasn't a thing, but he entirely skipped over "there's even more stigma because people are getting sick and dying" because he didn't want to think about it more than he had to. There was no reason for Wu to assume things were that bad.]
Ha! Thanks, man. It's still so wild to think about? If either of us had said anything we could have been like, secret high school sweethearts!
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[ Circle of trust, Wu trusts Ryan implicitly, despite everything. It's partially his own naiveté and desperation to have a friend, and partially that Ryan is pretty trustworthy as far as he's seen ]
Well, that's-- that's okay! I know you don't like to talk about the tough stuff. I get it, I totally do. There's plenty of stuff I don't want to talk about. [ DO YOU?! ] I get it, buddy! Don't you worry.
[ He sighs wistfully at that ] That would have been so romantic! But, at least it didn't take long-- at all! Wow, that's something, isn't it? I mean, why wouldn't he be totally into you? You're the best!