By the Way (Lovesongs) by Megan Derr

Author:Megan Derr [Derr, Megan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Megan Derr
Published: 2021-12-08T23:00:00+00:00

"You are going to run that into the ground, aren't you?"

"You're lucky I didn't punch you, Antoine."

"Fair enough. So two weeks definitely. Cool."

Wally nodded, and sipped at his wine in silence for a couple of minutes. Then he abruptly sighed, set it down, and shook his head. "Give it, man. You made me feel like shit for a fucking month and a half. You weren't there for anything, whenever I called you. Not even to celebrate with me. Couldn't even tell me goodbye, asshole. So what gives?"

"To celebrate what?" Antoine asked, unable to keep back all of the bitterness. "Your ditching marriage and picking up fatherhood all in the same breath?"

"Minor details aside," Wally said quietly, somewhat sadly, "I would have thought you'd be happy for me."

"You'll be the best damned father ever," Antoine said to his wine. "I just wish you'd gotten to be Wally for a bit first." I wish you'd gotten to be with me, just for a little while, however I could have you. He'd never felt a single moment of guilt for stealing Wally's time away from Kathleen, not after the bitch had proven unworthy of it.

But there was no way he'd steal Wally's time from his kid. That meant he'd see less and less of Wally, between Wally being a father and his own time being eaten by the company. Funny, that he was right where he'd always wanted to be, two steps away from having an office that said Vice President in a company he'd helped make great. All he wanted, and he was fucking miserable.

They were sitting side by side again, but it still felt like there was an ocean between them.

Confess, part of him whispered. Have it all out, once and for all, and accept that it would either blow up in his face—or maybe, just maybe, it would close the growing gap between them. It made him sick just thinking about it. Once upon a time, he'd kept his mouth shut because he didn't dare lose a friend. Then Wally had gotten married, and he put those feelings away forever. Now that the wife was gone…dare he take them out again, and finally lay them bare?

Antoine had no fucking clue what to do anymore. After this last fuck up, and the misery in which he'd mired himself, he didn't want to risk the rest of his life without Wally. A month and a half had been more than he could take. He drank more wine, mostly to keep from doing or saying something stupid.

"So are you going to take time from your busy schedule to show me around town?" Wally asked, a stifled sigh plain in his voice.

"Of course," Antoine replied, his smile as strained as Wally's voice. "I need to take you out as much as I can, before you give up the nightlife for changing diapers and attending PTA meetings."

Wally laughed, if weakly. "Then what, you vanish into the sunset to continue playing? I didn't come here just for you to tell me goodbye and give me a proper sendoff.

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