little known fact, once you are older & no longer in school, time stops being real. did that thing happen one year ago? two? five? a few months ago? who knows.
Aaron knocks on the apartment door, a wedge in his throat and his stomach turning over itself, again and again and again.
This might be a bad idea.
He remembers the deal they’d made in high school and initially kept during college. He remembers Andrew’s reasoning behind it. He remembers feeling no remorse when he broke it. He’s regretting that now.
Neil looks a little shocked when he opens the door. He’s shirtless, which is always a shock to Aaron’s system when he sees it. Andrew told him it was to intimidate anyone who they didn’t want coming back. But Aaron saw the fuzzed hair and the self conscious crossing of Neil’s arms over his chest when he saw who it was, the lopsided angle to his sweatpant’s elastic, the flush on his cheekbones.
“I’ve seen things. I’ve done things.I know that sometimes we have to do the bad thing just to get by. And I know that sometimes very bad things have to be done to do a great right.”
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