For my summer reading, I have chosen to read the book My Heartbeat by Garrett Freymann-weyr. The book revolves around brother and sister Ellen (freshman in high school) and Link (Senior in high school), along with Links' best friend James. However it seems that James and Link may be more then friends. To Ellen this may be a tragedy considering she's been madly in love with James since middle school, but she'd never thought about them being a couple despite all the time they spend together. She only got the idea when a friend of hers comes up to her at school and asks her if her brother and James were a couple, and she quite frankly didn't know how to answer. Instead of directly asking them, Ellen decides to ask her mother first and if she had anything against it. Her mom had nothing to say other then as long as Link was happy, her father on the other hand is a different story. Ellen later asks both Link and James if they were a couple (attempting to stay away from the word "gay" around Link) Link being a man of few words has nothing much to say on the subject and refuses to talk about it with Ellen. I see where Link is coming from about not wanting to come out of the closet with a world with people who can be very judgmental and hateful (which is something that is seen too often in today) however I predict that Link will later learn to express his true feelings.
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