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“Why do gay people have to come out but straight people never do?” Ari asks casually one day when they are having dinner.
“Because the world is full of shitty people,” Rafe comments.
Valid.
“Helps with character development,” Max points out, swallowing the mouthful of pasta without chewing.
Gross.
Brothers are fucking gross.
“And straight people don't need character development?” Magnus chuckles.
Max replies immediately, “i mean they are straight. Nothing can redeem that.”
“This feels like a personal attack,” Rafe rolls his eyes at Max. “Being straight is not a crime you know.”
Arianna rolls her eyes at them before turning to her parents.
“Dad, how did you come out?”
Dad’s hand stops mid-way as he pauses.
“Dad smooched the fuck out of Bapak in the accords hall,” Rafe smirks at Dad, who exchanges a look with Bapak full of love.
How could she forget? She has heard this story a billion times.
The story of the kiss.
“That must have been so badass,” Ari says excitedly.
Something flashes across Dad’s face and it wasn't the same happiness she sees when anyone mentions the kiss.
“It wasn’t.”
Max and Rafe exchange a look before matching grins appear on their faces.
“Bapak, are you hearing this?” Rafe says dramatically.
Max puts a hand to his chest in mock hurt before adding fuel to the fire, “The disrespect. Bapak, if I was you, I would not have taken it.”
“These are grounds for divorce,” Rafael adds, grinning ear to ear as he fist-punches Max.
Ari chuckles at their idiocy but she doesn’t miss the look on Dad’s face or how Bapak fastens their hands together.
“It was the greatest kiss of my life,” Dad adds, smiling at Bapak.
“He is trying to cover it up now,” Max interrupts but Rafael punches him in the shoulder this time and Max raises his hands up in surrender.
“Like I said, it was the greatest kiss of my life but it was also the scariest moment of my life.”
“Because you made a declaration of your love?” Rafe asks.
Dad shakes his head. He hesitates before replying, “Because I kissed a man in a room full of homophobic assholes.”
“Oh.”
She feels a pit in her stomach for her dad, for how scared he must have felt.
Bapak shifts his chair closer to Dad and kisses his temple gently.
“We know that kiss made a statement, but no one should be forced to make statements like that. It shouldbe easier,” Bapak says in a gentle voice.
“See!” Arianna points out. “That's what I'm talking about. Like why should I have to go through the ordeal of having to sit through a coming-out conversation? ‘Hi, Dad. Hi Bapak. Just wanted to let you know that I’m into girls. I am still the same person I was and I hope you can accept it’. Fuck that shit,” Ari rambles. “I’m not doing that.”
Four pair of eyes turned on her and widened.
“What?”
“OH MY GOD!!”
“You’re into girls.”
Ari rolls her eyes at all of them, “Yes. I am a lesbian.”
“Magnus, did you hear that?” Alec says excitedly.
Ari pushes the chair back and stands up, “I just told you guys that I dont want this to be a big deal. I dont like the concept of coming out. So this is my formal request to not considering this a coming out.”
“We don’t care that you’re gay, Ari,” Max points out. “We care that you told us today.”
She knows that Max knows. Max knows everything about her. He always knows.
But she doesn’t understand everyone else’s reaction so she frowns “What does that mean?”
“It means that I won,” Dad pushes his hands in the air.
“What?”
Bapak, Rafe and Max all took out 100 dollars from their pockets and passed it to Dad.”
Ari’s eyes widen, “You bet on me?”
“Sure did, my baby.”
“You all are horrible, people.”
They all shrug in unison.
Assholes.
But her heart filled with warmth and love.
“How did you know?” Ari asks.
Rafael chuckles at the words, “Ari, you could not have a bigger crush on the babysitter if you tried.”
She rolled her eyes, “I could be staring at her to teach her a few things about fashion.”
“What about Marisa? The new transfer from L.A. Institute?” Max chuckles.
“She doesnt know how to throw an arrow.”
“You dont know that either. You are thirteen,” Dad comments with a grin on his face.
“And you have been obsessed with Aunt Izzy since you were a baby,” Bapak adds.
“That has nothing to do with me being a lesbian, thats ‘aunt izzy’ effect.”
Everyone nods at that.
“We been knew sis. We were waiting fo ryou to catch up,” Mac ruffles her hair.
“Fuck off, Max.”
“Language,” Dad says but his words barely had any heat.
“Can we move on and stop making fun at my expense?”
Ari knows they won’t stop because they are assholes like that.
Dad pauses for a minute before replying thoughtfully, “I think we should be allowed five more minutes of this.”
“Will I get my cut from your earnings?”
“10%?”
“50.”
“25 and that’s final.”
Ari grins, “Deal.”
“Also, who says straight people never come out?” Dad says after a minute.
Rafael’s eyes widens and he started yelling, “No. No. No. You promised.”
Max and Ari frown at whatever’s happening as Rafael hangs his head in shame.
“Bapak, we had a deal.”
Alec stands behind Rafael and ruffles his hair, “Why, rafe? What happened to ‘grounds for divorce?”
Bapak snorts at the words as Rafael whine, “Bapak, please. Help.”
“You poked the wrong bear, Rafael.”
Ari frowns and exchanged a look with Max who also seems equally out of the loop.
“What's going on?”
Dad puts both his hands on Rafe’s shoulder, who has his face in his hands and speaks, “Rafael came out when he was twelve.”
Both their eyes widen.
“What?”
“He came out as straight. He told us that he is not like us and apologised for that,” Dad laughs loudly.
Max starts jumping on the chair, laughing like this is the best thing he's heard in his entire life. Ari cannot help but laugh at Rafe himself, even though it’s cute and only Rafe would do something like this.
"Rafe, you are the biggest dork," Ari laughs.
“I was the victim of a horrible prank,” Rafael pouts and hides his face in Magnus’s shoulder. He looks up at Dad and glares. “I hate you.”
Dad bends to place a kiss on his head, “I love you too.”
It's only a few hours later when she is ready for bed, that Bapak and Dad knocks on her door.
“Hey.”
They don’t say anything, just cross the distance and hug her. She’s still waiting for her growth spurt and Dad and Bapak are fucking giants so she all but hides between the two of them.
No words are needed right now.
They know she knows.
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