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"Dead"
"Oh" I let hten His one word reply has said far more to me than many entire stories have "I’m sorry"
"As I am about yours" His voice has softened and taken on a so to read his iry to understand this o where I probably should not "How old were you when she died?" I hold ive ness to share personal details with the women he…dates? Fucks? I’m not sure Actually, there is a whole heck of a lot I’m not sure about at this juncture of my life
"Car accident when I was five"
He spits out the infor so mechanism I know that s, to deal with them or you crash and burn
"I enty-then I losthim no words of sympathy I’ve heard them myself I know they don’t help "She had a raduation"
He stares atthere is nothingsucky happen to us We both dread the ra syet it and each other We just…understand
Seconds tick by and I think I’ve shared more in these moments with this man I’ve known only days than I have anyone except maybe my mother We understand each other in a way few can
It’s Chris who breaks the silence, reaching for his fork and ets cold"
I nod and in silent unison, we pick up our forks and begin to eat again in silence, both thoughtful There are so many questions I could ask but I don’t Personal questions about his family I know I can’t ask now, if ever He’s already shared more with me than I expected, as I have with him Still, with this new revelation about his mother, I want to know this ?" I ask "Why not a sport or the piano, like your father?"
His jaw tenses, barely perceivable, but I notice, and I wonder why What nerve have I hit?
"My father dated a rather famous artist who decided I needed an outlet outside the schoolyard brawls I was getting into for ? You don’t seeain, he’d all but flattened Mark, who had see er I was in a new place and I didn’t speak the language, and I was an outsider to the other kids It was fight or get beat up I don’t like being beat up The proble, I looked for reasons to keep doing it I was pissed off about being in Paris and wanted to coot kicked out of school"
"Ouch What did your father do?"