"We're stronger together, Drix. I promise we are. Please don't give up on us. Please don't give up on yourself." "I don't know," he says into my hair. "I don't know where to go from here. I don't know how to be the man you deserve when we can't even be seen together in public. I don't know who I am, especially when I'm never going to be anything more than who I was."