Chapter 27

For the next hour or so, Izzy continued his task, his mental jukebox playing him some Bob Dylan and his brain whirring with thoughts on how to approach this thing.

He had to be back home in time for Morales to take another look at the car, so he couldn’t go see Wyatt after work. It felt horrible, leaving things like they were, but at least it also gave him enough time to go online for some research.

Insurance fraud guy, Thomas, was happy to loan him his laptop because “the quality of food in this house has gone up since you started to work at Abbot’s, Izzy.” That was one of the things Izzy hadn’t anticipated; the fact that bringing produce home meant that his housemates might feel more positively about his presence, not that he had any problems with them really.

Still, he used a couple of hours scouring the internet on gender identity and sexuality and stuff, and learned that gender, sex, and sexuality were three separate things.