"He was already homeless! He was pre-homeless. We weren't living together or anything. That was never a thing." He just let Hartley crash on his floor in exchange for doing things for him, it was always a business thing. He and Axel had a contract, he and Hartley had a maybe sometimes deal going on and the kid had to learn to find somewhere else to sleep eventually because there was no such thing as a consistent place to crash when you weren't kicking in to the rent. "And he made the kiss gay and I freaked!"

Yes, Hartley somehow made the kiss between two men that was totally not gay magically gay. Somehow. "You can too. And I am. I'm a straight dude who sometimes digs the guys."