Always

18| coming out?

LIAM

All of us sat at the table for breakfast today. It had been a week since Carter came back and Alex got shot. We understood why she refused the pain meds and didn't ask her about it again, but it still hurt to see her in pain. Lucas and Layla were pestering me to tell everyone about André. I really had considered it, but I still wasn't sure.

I looked down at my phone and smiled at his texts. 

"Whoa are you blushing? Liam Di Angelo is blushing?" Luca exclaimed in glee, taking out his phone to click a picture. I jumped over the table and wrestled it out of his hands when Ace pulled me off him. I glared at them before throwing Luca his phone. 

"What's got you all blushy anyways? You didn't answer my question." 

I looked at Lucas and Layla who were giving me encouraging smiles and then I turned to Genevieve who was holding hands with Carter. I smiled too. 

"So, I have a person. Whom I love and appreciate and miss and he's also my boyfriend." I put it all out on the table. 

I sighed, blinking hard and waiting for their responses. It could go either good or bad, and I had no clue which one it was. 

Alex was the first one to smile. "That's great! I'm proud of you for being brave and strong." She reached out and squeezed my hand. 

I smiled at her appreciatively as Genieve came over and gave me a hug.

"I love you lil bro. You don't need to be scared to be true to yourself and I'm sorry if any of us made it seem like you couldn't come to us." 

I smiled and hugged her back. "I love you too Gen. I'm sorry for never telling you that." She smiled as Carter clicked a picture. 

"That is so cute. He sounds amazing." Carter reached over and patted my head affectionately. I looked at my other siblings. Amara and Layla squeezed me at the same time. They said they were proud of me and couldn't wait to meet him.

Ace came over and put a hand on my shoulder. "Tell him, if he breaks your heart, I'll break all his bones." 

I chuckled. "I'm not a kid Ace." He just shrugged before pulling me into a hug. Romeo and Luca had pretty much similar reactions to the others before Carina came up to me and hugged me. 

"That's great. Did you know I'm pan by the way?" 

I looked at her in surprise. "You are? That's great! I'm so happy and so proud of you."

She shrugged before we all sat down for breakfast again. 

"Can we see a picture please?" Layla pleaded. 

"Sure." I passed her my phone which was filled with hundreds of photos of him. 

"Ooh. He's so cute." She squealed and passed the phone around the table, until it landed on Alex who froze. 

"That's him?" She asked me, pointing to the picture. 

"Yes, why?" She gave me my phone back and frantically started searching for something. Her own phone. "Wait a second." She tapped on the phone app and called someone tagged Andy with a yellow-blue and purple heart Emoji. 

My hands clenched. "Bonjour magnifique." A voice came from the other end, his french accent was as good as André's. She chuckled before her eyes went dark. "Depuis combien de temps le savez-vous ?" [How long have you known?: French] 

He male laughed. "Since you shifted. I knew you would figure It out." She rolled her eyes. 

"That's why you never showed us a picture of him, right?"