The whole of Honey Well high's football team were crowded around a rather long table in the middle of a restaurant, shoving copious amounts of pasta into their mouths.

They were in the midst of celebrating their victory in making it into the grand final of their football championships. In about five weeks, they'd be playing against a rival school team and they were highly ecstatic about it all.

Ashton on the other hand, was trying to share the happy emotions buzzing throughout the atmosphere of the restaurant but found that he couldn't as much as he tried.

He was so stuck up on what had happened the past week and for some reason he didn't exactly understand, all he could think about was Luca.

He couldn't even feel bad for what he'd done to Betsy for a full second before his mind was drifting to her twin brother.

And when he'd attempt to rid of the image of Luca from his head, Benji who was sitting next to him would say something like,

"You should invite Luca to the party tomorrow night."

Ashton would shake his head, "Why...?

"Just saying," Benji would say with a shrug.

And currently, Benji being Benji was chatting Ashton's ears off about something or another that he couldn't exactly remember.

"You're not listening, so i'm just going to do it," Benji said, finally grabbing Ashton's attention.

"Do what?" he asked, eyebrows forming a frown.

Benji sent the blond a wink, "Something I should've done a long time ago."

With his words, Benji stood up in his seat, a champagne glass in his hans.

He tapped the glass carefully but loud enough to catch the whole team and their coach's attention.

"I have an announcement!" Benji exclaimed, a wide grin spreading over his face.

Everyone turned to Mateo's light laughter, "What are you gonna announce? That you're a fag?" he asked.

Benji only grinned and set his champagne glass back on the table, eyeing Mateo with a certain glint in his eyes.

"Yeah actually, I am," Benji said.

Everyone fell silent.

"I'm gay, " he finished.

He sat back down and everyone stared—some with confusion, others not bothered and a few with deep frowns.

"For real?" one guy asked and Benji just nodded.

It went silent again and all the team members resumed their eating.

Benji didn't mind. He wasn't expecting an abundance of immediate acceptance nor support

It would be gradual, slow but steady.

As the rest of the boys dug into their food, Ashton watched with curiosity. He had been through his acceptance of homosexuality before, but after Benji's confession he was thinking of being gay in a different way.

In a way that involved himself.