Moving. Yet again. Because this ducking stupid—
No. Get yourself under control. You know what happened that time—
Okay. New school. Mmhm. It's alright.
He arrives at the school...
"You might not want to get too used to it. Danny is gay, and no one has a problem with that, but bisexuality is widely recognized as a myth, and you'll want to check any gender baggage at the door."
"That's between you and your sense of self-preservation."
Wow, psychology is so fascinating.
It is! But:
"I could conceivably pretend to be monosexual, but not really having only one gender all the time. That's more psychologically necessary to me than having good social status."
"I believe you just fine. Not sure if I should wish you luck, offer my help, or run for the hills."
"I can keep anyone from making a big deal about you or I can make explaining the whole wide world of the rainbow coalition my next priority. Your choice."
"From a purely altruistic standpoint, the latter option is pretty attractive, but I'm not sure it's the most politically feasible, as per your girlfriend's stated ambitions. Of course, it could be spinned as a platform if you were reasonably sure it would be the winning one for the relevant timeframe."
"This is California. Fair point, though. Doesn't mean I can't do that at school, no one will be looking for social movements I was part of while they're trying to find sex scandals and cover-ups."
Jackson has a couple of things to think about, then.
The bell rings.
Jackson's nice! Ade likes him.
"And now's when Danny shows me where Spanish is."
"You already have him waiting on you hand and foot, I'm jealous. Took me years to get into his good graces."
"What can I say, I'm very charming," he tells Jackson, waving with two fingers.
When Danny's there: "Yeah, he's really nice, and I think I got him to plan how to make the school less biphobic and transphobic and honestly that's really hot."
"I don't remember it verbatim but something along the lines of not being used to the popular people being cool with my genderfluidity, then he said people here are okay with you being gay but bisexuality is a myth and I should leave gender baggage at the door, then I said I could pretend to be monosexual but couldn't conceivably say I was a single gender and keep my sanity so I'd keep being violently queer, he said he didn't know whether to wish me luck, offer help, or run for the hills, I asked what offering help might look like, he said he could keep people off my back or bring the Good Word of the Rainbow to the people, I said the latter was most altruistic if not political, he said it wasn't that bad, and apparently that convinced him?"
"I'll talk to him during practice, see what's going on. He's usually kind of...abrasive, with new people."
Spanish indeed! "I'll catch you later, probably have lunch with you guys tomorrow."
Someone is arguing with the teacher about vosotros again.
He can do that, while keeping half an ear on Stiles' argument because that is so cute.