“No,” I say. “I won’t do that.”
Simon shrinks from me. His hands fall to his lap. He looks anguished.
I loop his tail around my hand again and hold him everywhere tight. “No,”
I repeat. “I can touch you less gently, but I won’t love you less kindly.” (chapter 32)
Can we talk about how the Crucible roommate selection foreshadowed how Baz and Simon got together??
First we hear from Simon that he initially felt nothing at all until he suddenly felt a *pull* and ended up next to Baz desperately wanting to resolve it with the handshake. Baz, on the other hand, was playing it cool and ignored the feeling, letting Simon make the first move.
Simon didn’t know he was in love with Baz until he started feeling closer to him after the Visiting. Baz knew all along and was determined to ignore it, believing Simon would never feel the same.