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It was gone His drea but burned, collapsed walls Nothing but the handful of ash he had in his pocket Stupid, really What did taking it change? Just like keeping his queen all those years ago didn’t ave hi the ash was useless

"Jay"

Josiah ed to pull his eyes from the empty shell of Full Circle to look at Teo His vision was blurred, because of tears or so else, Josiah didn’t know The people here today knew Tristan It wouldn’t be hard to figure out who Mateo was By needing them, Josiah had solidified the link between the deal We’ll fix it Tristan will fix it"

Yesterday those words would have been enough toin hier foundation But now all he could think of was the fact that they’d been falling apart Tristan and Teo were pulling away, leaving Josiah out in the cold That he wasn’t in bed with the their hoain; and now, the place that he wanted so --the piece of them that Josiah wished would be a part of all their happiness was gone

And the police wondered if he’d done it Maybe he had, in a way Maybe he’d lit fire to his own dreao up in fla in a way he never thought he would feel again, the three of the yanked farther and farther away fro out his hands for the to build their relationship, their drea it alone for the past week

Full Circle was supposed to be the physical eone Just when hisaway, they lost this He lost it

It was a big deal to o home, Teo"

"Okay Whatever you want, mi precioso" Mateo looked over at Tristan, who spoke to a police officer and a firefighter

Go to him, Josiah wanted to say, but the words didn’t coo, not with the officers around He hated cops, but there was et so bad that they wouldn’t talk? Was it Teo’s fear of causing Tristan problems at work? Whatever it was, it still affected the balance between them It was inevitable, he realized They were destined for this because the three of theround in every way

All he wanted was to hold things together for the so, and maybe he always should have known that he couldn’t do it alone

And aswould always be okay, his faith started to tre up at once

In New York, things weren’t perfect, but Josiah was happy He believed it would be okay because he had Teoand then he lost him Almost lost hi a life for hiain hadn’t been perfect between him and Tristan, he believed they would be okay Then Teo ca snatched away, because how could he lose one of them? How could he choose between them?

It was Josiah who decided that wasn’t an option Josiah who decided they would all be happy--who believed their tiht for the three of theh the draht, only to experience theht for them the only way he kne

And now another shot, another hurdle Josiah wasn’t that strong He never had been, and he wasn’t sure he had it in hiht anymore, especially if he had to do it alone

"Jay" Mateo stepped in front of Josiah so he could see nothing but Teo He didn’t speak, just looked in Josiah’s eyes Even Josiah wondered what he saw there

Josiah looked down "I’uys I can’t be here" He couldn’t see this, couldn’t feel their eyes on hi down his own drea, Tristan walked up

"Let’s go" He went to the driver side and got in Teo opened the front passenger door for Josiah, who sat without a word Mateo climbed into the back as the three of them drove home in silence