Horace may be a barely-functioning adult now, but he still has daddy’s money and his army of underage asskissers on his side. Horace no longer shows up to any band events (except for when he volunteered as a room monitor for district band tryouts...a position where he’d be in a room full of 12-16 year old kids all day), but he will show up to all our choir concerts, mainly because most of his little friends are there. He hides behind his “gay” label to absolve himself of any responsibility for his past preying on girls, and so his underage female friends won’t feel creeped out (and also to appease them since they’re SJWs). Like most lies, I’m sure this one will eventually be exposed. After that, my guess is that he’ll troon out
Jonathan Yaniv-style and claim to be a “lesbian twanz woman uwu” while making no effort to actually pass as female and sue vaginal waxers for not waxing his balls. His friends won’t care, they’ll forgive him and keep him on their side lest they lose woke points for rejecting a "black lesbian twanz woman". At one point last summer, I made a post on my private Instagram making fun of his pedophilic nature (without actually namedropping him). One of his little friends who I didn’t even know followed that account slid into my DMs later, yelling at me basically along the lines of “hey i know who ur talking about so stup it horace is a innocent flower who can do no wrong!!!1”
There’s nothing Horace loves more than teenage girls; he will try to befriend any teenage girl he meets, no matter how young they happen to be. For example, after district band tryouts, I saw that he and Cassie (14) were talking to each other. Since Cassie was already involved in a pedophilic relationship, alarm bells rang in my head, and when he left I warned her about his nature. Of course, since it’s Cassie, she told me to go fuck myself, called me a bitch, and went whining to another girl in our band about how I was “giving her a panic attack”. His asskissers always come to his defense, no matter how minor a slight may be. He’s very touchy with these teenage girls, too; last year at the music department party (which was for students only, mind you), he kept trying to touch my friend’s shoulders the whole time despite her repeatedly telling him to stop.
I hope one day Horace realises how awful he really is and make an effort to change himself for the better, but knowing him, I doubt that will ever happen. He will always have his personal hugbox, his loads of money, and his parents’ restaurants to keep him company (of course, if he inherits the restaurants then he is sure to drive them into the ground). I predict that one day in the distant future, I’ll be reading the news and see his name in an article titled “[TOWN] MAN ARRESTED FOR INAPPROPRIATE CONDUCT WITH CHILDREN AS YOUNG AS THREE”, or he’ll knock on my door to tell me that he’s legally required to say he’s a sex offender.