Blindside by N.R. Walker

Author:N.R. Walker
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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I spoke to Will on Saturday, just briefly. I was heading to my mom’s and just wanted to

check in with him. I didn’t ask if he had plans with Clay or even if he was there, because quite frankly, I just didn’t want to know.

I didn’t speak to Will again until he got to work on Monday.

He acted like nothing had happened. He smiled to himself when he didn’t know I was

looking and he’d smile at his phone whenever it would beep.

He never mentioned Clay, and neither did I.

But I couldn’t deny he was happy.

All week he acted like nothing had changed, and on Thursday, I asked what he was doing on the weekend. “There’s some Japanese Samurai film marathon on at Webster theater on

Saturday,” I suggested.

“Oh,” he said softly, “Clay has a polocrosse game. I was going to watch.”

“No worries,” I said, covering quickly with some excuse that I only watched those shit subtitled movies because he liked them.

But he didn’t offer for me to come with him to watch stupid Clay on his stupid horse. I would have said no anyway, but it would have been nice to have been asked.

I wondered whether it was Will’s or Clay’s stipulation that I not be invited.

I guessed it didn’t matter.

“We’ve got our suit fittings this afternoon,” I reminded him quietly. Then something

occurred to me. Maybe he didn’t want to go to Carter and Isaac’s wedding as my date anymore.

“Hey, if you don’t want to come to the wedding, you don’t have to,” I told him.

“Oh, um…”

“Anyway, if you’d rather not, I can find someone else to go with me. It’s no big deal.”

“I forgot about the fitting,” he mumbled. “I’ll just text Clay…” He pulled out his phone, thumbing out some message. “I told him I’d head straight to his place after work, so I just told him I’ll be late.” Then he said, “I want to go to the wedding. I said I would.”

“Well, actually, you didn’t,” I told him. “I kind of told you you were going, and you just never said no.”

Will’s phone beeped, and our conversation was forgotten as he texted back and forth with Clay.

I told Will I had to work through lunch to get some figures done for a client, which

wasn’t exactly the truth, and when five o’clock rolled around, I packed up and left before him.

I’d walked the two blocks to the tailor, when Will called out behind me. “Mark, wait!”

He was almost running to catch up. “Hey, are you okay?” he asked. “Are you pissed off

at me? Because I said I’d go to the wedding.” He looked worried as he ran his hand through his short blond hair.

I shook my head and laughed at how ridiculous this was. He was free to do whatever he

wanted. “No, Will, it’s fine.”

His eyes narrowed at me. “You sure?”

“Of course I am,” I said, relieved that he still cared. “Let’s go in and show ’em how to fill a suit.”

We’d done little

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