Gerome had seen people leaving, though hadn't taken much notice of who or what they were. There could have been a boy in the mix but he couldn't bring an image of those people to his mind. So they never came back after they left? He'd thought about following them. Would he have been allowed?

The other was still talking and Gerome refocused his attention on that, just in time to find out that Inigo had been dating...a boy. Not a girl. But a male.

He couldn't quite stop the way his eyebrows raised in surprise, though once he realised, Gerome did his best to school his features into something more neutral.

Inigo... had been hiding that from him? Why? Was he ashamed? Did he believe Gerome would judge him? Maybe he wasn't important enough to know these things? Perhaps Inigo just didn't want to include him in this new world of his as much as he had claimed? And why... did that bother him so much?

"I see..."