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"He turned you down?"

Sam whirls in his seat. "No! He just said I had to earn it. He's a really nice guy." Gabriel grumbles, but relents and settles in to listen. Sam goes on. "What he said was, if I can show that I'm able to get students to be honest and talk about their problems then I can have the column. So I have to do this article first."

"About who's having sex."

"About how people feel about sex, and whether they can talk to people about it, and feel like they know about it and stuff. It's not like I'm going to be writing Penthouse Letters or anything."

"How can you possibly know what to say about sex if you've never had it?"

"Like you could do much better."

Gabriel's silent for just long enough. Sam's eyes widen.

"Just the once," Gabriel admits. "At summer camp, last summer. We used to sneak out at night and meet on the beach. We figured we'd never see each other again, and we might as well try."

Sam's jaw isn't working right. "Y-y-you... with a girl?" Gabriel shakes his head. "With a guy?" Nod. "Seriously?" Another nod. "D-d-did you--"

"I topped," Gabriel declares. "It was okay. So weird, though, I feel kind of--" He shudders. "Well, dirty is the wrong word. But it's just weird to be in my house and know... know that I've done that."

"Huh." Sam's not sure what to do with this information. He had figured Gabriel had more experience, given how comfortable he was in his own sexuality. But for whatever reason, he'd never wondered whether Gabriel was a virgin. It didn't seem like it was in the realm of possibility.

Well, he supposes it doesn't matter. It's not like Gabriel's gonna press him to have sex tomorrow or the next day. Still... it's new information.

"You should do a poll," Gabriel says.

For a minute Sam thinks he is making some sort of innuendo-laden pun. "What?"

"Like, an online poll. That way kids can say how they feel anonymously."

Sam screws up his face. "That's not gonna work. They'll just troll the hell out of it. You would."

Gabriel's pleased-with-himself look fades. "Good point."

"Yeah." Sam's eyes are somewhere distant. "Chuck wanted me to prove I could talk to people. So I think that's what I'm gonna do."

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