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Because I've been having a good time reading other people's questions/responses, and, you know, just in case anyone was curious about anything...

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Brendon's Parents, pt. 1

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Brendon's family does find out about Cash. I'm going to say that it's during his junior year, when his parents actually do reach out to him, want to see how he's doing.

[Back story, which you may or may not already know: He was never actually disowned. There was a big blowout fight when Brendon announced that he was going to go away to school and turn away from the Mormon faith. Things were said, Brendon basically ran away, and ever since, he's been afraid to reach out to them--especially after he begins things with Cash--in case things get even worse.]

In my head, his parents thought that Brendon would come home, that he wouldn't be able to make it on his own, that he'd return to them and the faith, but a year passes, two, part of a third, and his parents send him a Christmas card.

And apparently this is where I get into plot summary territory!

He gets the card when he comes back from visiting Cash over the holiday--I'm going to pretend that houses are open over the holidays!--and it's not a long, in depth letter. It's more a generic card, where his mom has written "hope all is going well", but it's also signed Love, Mom & Dad. Brendon stares at it for awhile. He puts it on top of his desk, then inside the desk, then takes it out and stares at it some more. He doesn't answer that day, but maybe two days later, he does write them back. He talks about school, about how he's president of his house, about how he'd spent the holiday at his friend Cash's house. He feels guilty as he writes it, because it's Cash, but he still sends it. That night, though, he talks to Cash on the phone for two hours, feeling increasingly guilty the entire time, because this is who he is now, he's over hiding it at all, and Cash deserves better. Cash notices that all is not right on Brendon's end, but Brendon just tells Cash that he misses him. He lies awake all night, pretty much, and the next morning, he writes a second letter, one that says, "I just wanted you to know, Cash is my boyfriend."

He doesn't send it immediately, because he's pretty sure that if he does, that will be the official deal-breaker with his parents. Within the next day or so, though, after Cash returns to town, he does put it in the mailbox, and part of him feels sick, but he's mostly relieved, because he doesn't have to wonder whether he'll be able to reconcile with his parents any longer, he's sure he won't.