Young teen simon riley exploring his sexuality for the first time & telling his mom maybe he isn’t into girls, only to take it back immediately seeing the heartbreak in her eyes
He buries it deep in him even long after his family is gone because he can’t betray her like that
@tb_png Only when he falls in love with Soap does he realize how pure and simple it actually is and after some midnight conversations with him under the covers, he finds out that his mom was only scared for him from the horrors that they’d been through, and Simon feels finally liberated