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I touched one, gently taking it out of its resting place "Oh, Williaurines, all in different poses and portraying different types of characters There was a jester and a knight in full plate ar a map and a sextant

"Those are the ones you’ve ad back at the box and noted that he was exactly right These were the figurines that, in the past, I’d pulled off the shelf behind his worktable to take closer looks at the there, he had rele one I’d specifically aded the to find a special place for these So I can always see them They must take forever to paint"

"Not forever Or I’d never finish ure, they take about six to nine hours to complete First, I need to priest amount of base color…"

And he went on like this for about the next tenevery step while I nodded and sht hi that would break his ue--but Williarew visibly uncoht of his cousin

"Hey, Liam," Adam said as he sank down on the couch beside ave Adam a cold nod I raised my eyebrows and Adam frowned and pretended not to notice the brush-off

William looked at his watch and then, with dismay, at his nearly finished bottle of beer "I need to wait another forty-five minutes or so to metabolize the beer before I can drive hoood, William," Heath said "You’re tall and it’s just one--"

But Adaesture "Yeah, best to drop it, Heath, and just let hiot up to answer a text e and I reached out and took Adam’s hand William watched with interest, so I held our hands up and sood with us You don’t need to be ry with both of you," he said si ied a startled look I hadn’t meant to open that can of worms There was an aard silence but then William continued "If you would have talked to each other, you wouldn’t have had the problehtened around ht But we really don’t want to talk about all that right now It’s not productive"

Williahtly narrowed eyes and then nodded "How did you t did you start dating?"

Ada, uncomfortable look Of our friends, only Heath knew the sordid circuinity auction, Ada he hadn’t been my online friend already for over a year It was all a complicated mess that was either a) too hard to explain, b) too e to explain, c) none of their business or d) all of the above

"We ame, Liam I told you that," Adam said

"Yes, but you were only friends then When did you ask her to go out on a date with you and how did it happen?"

I shifted in le at Ada him sweat it out, but I decided to let him off the hook and answer "Ada out for a while--as friends--things developed into more"

Adaement of the truth and William seemed to accept that Ada his forehead "So how do you go fro a romantic relationship?"

Ada utterly lost as to how to answer that By noas suppressing laughter behindperson that question! Adam had had no ro hookups with various partners over the years--not so affectionately referred to by me as "fuck buddies" In fact, ourpart of why our relationship had run into trouble in so short a time