![]() ![]() Kenny was the first person to whom Jake revealed the secret of his powers, but, contrary to what Jake would have expected, Kenny didn't pull away scared, and the attraction between the two was becoming more obvious. There they opened up to each other: Jake learned how Kenny found out he liked boys and not girls, about his father's difficulty in accepting that he is gay, about the car crash hit by a drunk driver that killed his mother and left his father in a wheelchair, while Jake, who still didn't understand his own sexuality, told him about his mother, about his best friend Maria, and about the father who, he believed, had drowned when he was a baby and so his mother prevented him from learning to swim. ![]() When they finally approached each other, Jake invited Kenny to go hiking in the desert. Archer's History class, Jake's favorite teacher, highlighting important queer people from the past when mentioned in class, which attracted harassment from bully Zeke and his crew - and also the curiosity of Jake, who was still in the closet. Kenny also helps his wheelchair-bound father at their tourist lodge called Desert Springs Lodge, near Hot Springs Park. Jake has known Kenny since middle school, recognizing him as someone outspoken in a way that he also wanted to be, but seeing how kids picked on him kept Jake from becoming his friend. ![]()
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