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In Italy, Amir falls quickly into a new gay lifestyle, meeting new people who welcome him into their circle and show him around Italy. They believe that his family kicked him out however, so he finds himself living a lie once again, though in a slightly different way. As he continues to avoid his own family's phone calls, afraid to face up to whether or not they now know the truth about him he also avoids conversations with his new friends about his family and what happened when he came out. These new friends of Amir's are older, in some cases quite a bit older, and I did feel a little awkward about that sometimes. Amir comes across as being very young, and I often felt I was reading about a fifteen year old rather than an eighteen year old, and at times the party life they bring Amir into seemed unrealistically bright and wonderful. But then, edges of darkness did begin to creep in. The perfect world that Amir thinks he has found isn't so perfect after all, and there are seemingly happy relationships that perhaps aren't so good after all.