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He’s awfully ue idea about where we’re going We head left and continue into the cave, walking in silence for several minutes A noise echoes in distant tunnels, and this raises my pulse I probably should have asked about bats Or ates a sharp turn in the tunnel, I stew over his words

"Sins?" I say

"What?"

"You said I was absolved of all "

I don’t think he was

After a short silence, he says, "I mean, you kno I feel about Brett But Andre S? What was up with that?"

This conversation isinto territory that I don’t care to relive "Andre was nice tonice to you" He pauses and then says, "But I didn’t know you were seriously seeing each other Brett caught me up and told"What did Brett tell you?"

"Can we talk about so else?" Lennon says

"No, we can’t Because if Brett was gossiping about ht to know"

Lennon considers this and continues walking, until I have no choice but to either catch up with him or be left behind in the rees "Brett said you and Andre were, you knowexchanging body heat"

That’s a funny way to put it In a way, it makes it seem worse Like Lennon--someone who sees all kinds of crazy sex toys on a daily basis--can’t even bring himself to say what Andre and I did out loud

"Andre and Brett talk," Lennon adds "Multiplayer"

"What?"

"Online ga I don’t know I only play survival horror games Maybe a little Minecraft Okay, and some Final Fantasy, but don’t tell anyone about that"

"I don’t care"

"Hey, I didn’t ask for it," he says "Brett volunteered it"

"I only saw Andre for a couple of weeks"

"I saw you guys out at Thai Palace once"

"You were spying on us?"

"The restaurant is across the street from my place of e I don’t own a telescope"

Ugh I was hoping we could avoid bringing up that mishap Like, forever

"And if you want to know the truth," he continues in a crabby voice, "I thought it was sort of shitty of you to flaunt that in my face"