Author notes: CW for a homophobic slur/homophobic tone towards the end of the chapter.

Song is Changes by David Bowie. Lyrics that play:

Still don’t know what I was waiting for

And my time was running wild

A million dead end streets - and

Every time I thought I’d got it made

It seemed the taste was not so sweet

So I turned myself to face me

But I’ve never caught a glimpse

Of how the others must see the faker

I’m much too fast to take that test.