
We're pretty much back to flashbacks. After Simon and Conor finally met again, Conor was about to tell something important to Simon and then we flashed back.
In these flashbacks, we're seeing Simon and Conor back when they were happily together and just before Conor was severely beaten up by Pete and other people of that racist group, named WAF. We find out how the WAF knew that Conor and Simon were gay (because they put camera's in their house) and it's also hinted at that someone had wanted Simon and Conor to break up, which is why they were targeted (who this person is, we don't know. But personally, I think it's someone of the music agency that Simon is a part of in the present. They might have wanted Simon and Conor to break up, so they could have Simon join their agency. That music agency wasn't going to allow Conor to join too, for reasons we don't know, but Simon wasn't going to join them without Conor. So, if Conor wasn't out of the way, they couldn't have Simon. Which might be the reason why Conor was targeted).
The blonde guy you're talking about is Pete. He is a part of the WAF and happened to see that video of Conor and Simon. When he said he wanted to 'catch up', it meant he wanted to be part of the group that would beat Conor up and damage his hand. Pete has always hated Conor, only because Conor is Asian.
Anyway, so now we get to see what lead up to Conor's hand being broken. We also get to see what Simon has been doing and been willing to do for Conor (like asking his brother to kill the people who hurt Conor).
oh god can someone please explain what's going on? I'm so lost and I don't even remember the last chapter I read. I think it was the blonde hair guy (not simon) seeing Conor through a video again and saying they were old acquaintances and wanted to "catch up"