The warmth of that head pat was something he could feel even now. He was pretty glad that Xi Long was the first person he had come out to since it gave him the strength to do the others. The positive reaction from him and feeling secure that his friend would not leave him was all the encouragement a teenager needed. Though not everyone else took it as easily...a bitter chuckle left his mouth. It really did him no good to reminisce over the darker parts of his life but with the good came the bad.