Noah laughs outright, feeling a lot lighter than he has in awhile. He really has been carrying this around, and maybe he shouldn't have cared so much what one person thought of him, but he did. And maybe Freddie still won't want to touch him, or be anything but friends, but that's okay. Noah just likes to be around him.

"I do have a camera," he says. "We can do a photo shoot. Something real artsy in black and white. You can wear a beret."