Zach laughed at Fred's response to the incident. Indeed, that had been Zach's personal response to it at the time. He had tried to avoid looking at his father during the next meal. His mother had made a comment, but his father shook it off. Later, his father had begun talking to him about sex, et cetera. Soon after that, it stopped being an embarrassed thing to have his father know he was sexual. But so too had begun hiding the fact he liked boys. But really, overall, it was hard for Zach to feel ashamed about sexual stuff.
Wrapping his arms around Fred, Zach stared up at the sky and back at Fred. A truth. "How and when did you know you were gay?" Zach asked. The story he told had reminded him of how early he knew he liked boys.