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Those words should make Josiah fly, but instead they were like heavy rocks in the pit of his stomach They all knew Tristan didn’t say those words often, even though they were true The fact that he said the in his office, Mateo still nowhere in sight, made Josiah shiver

"I know We both do And we love you"

Josiah stood in the same spot, minutes after Tristan disappeared into their bedrooh Josiah as he waited, wondered what the hell was going on Yes, Mateo had been upset about the thing with his PO yesterday, but Tristan had no reason to be acting like this unless it caain?

Josiah jerked around, taking quick steps to the living room No, Mateo wouldn’t leave Tristan would have told him if he had The truth was, he probably overreacted He’d been known to do that And with the way things had gone the past twenty-four hours, it would make sense

"Teo?" The couch, Josiah could see, was eot closer to the one with its back to hi Josiah he’d been asleep

"Why’d you sleep out here?" Josiah sat beside hio back to sleep I didn’t want to wake you up"

"So you happen to sleep on the couch the only night Tristan sleeps in his office?" It was easier to get things out of Mateo than it would be Tristan Tristan kept hiainst Teo, the truth was, he knew Teo had a harder ti

Mateo ainst the couch He didn’t look at Josiah when he spoke "People argue It’s not that big a deal, Jay I’ll fix it I promise you" With that he rolled his head to the side, still leaning back His hair was a h it over and over

"Fix what?" he asked, the sour feeling in his stoave hirown accusto on his lover’s face lately "Whatever I have to You know I’ll always do whatever I have to do to s okay"

The problem was, Josiah didn’t want him to They were both like that, Teo and Tristan They would both try and fix things on their own, and they needed to do it together The three of them

It was then that Tristan came around the corner He obviously had taken an extremely quick shower, and came out in only a pair of slacks Mateo turned, his eyes on Tristan Tristan returned his stare The look held a world of eood

Josiah pushed to his feet "What the hell is going on? What happened last night?"

"We had a disagree, does it Mateo?" Tristan said

"Not hoe feel," Mateo answered, but neither of them would look at each other They both kept their eyes on Josiah He felt stuck between deo Like he told Rhonda, it was everything to be able to hold theether, to keep their circle intact, but then, would they ever truly get where they needed to be if he always pushed? If they didn’t learn to open up on their own?

"Let’s go to the Wharf this ether," Josiah told them

This time, Mateo looked at Tristan, and Tristan back at Mateo Soain, and then Teo turned back Josiah’s way "I can’t, ot soonna head next door and develop some pictures I’ll be back later"

Tristan didn’t say a word, didn’t try to stop Mateo as he stood and walked out

"It’s ry at me and he doesn’t kno to handle it" Tristan shook his head "You go We’ll talk tonight I have to go to work and deal with a few things"

And then Tristan turned and headed back toward their room Josiah stood there a moment, then went to the kitchen and started coffee He sat at the table, drinking a cup He was on his second when he heard Tristan leave the bedrooress they had made felt like it’d all been wiped out, and Josiah didn’t understand why They were beginning to unravel, their circle cracking, and he hoped like hell he could find a way to keep it fro into all the different pieces they had been before they’d gotten together