Fragile by Skyler Snow & Rheland Richmond

Author:Skyler Snow & Rheland Richmond [Snow, Skyler & Richmond, Rheland]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-07-22T16:00:00+00:00

15

Tom

Jack had come back. I wasn’t sure why that surprised me but it did. There’d been a part of me that had thought he wouldn’t when I tagged along with Elliot and Scott to drop him off at the airport.

“You know when I said maybe to keep yourself occupied, I wasn’t exactly thinking… this. Don’t get me wrong, it’s pretty cool but I don’t know, I wasn’t expecting it.” I teased. I scanned the apartment. It was still looking pretty bare, but Elliot, Scott and I had been helping him with some actual interior decorating. It wasn’t working, though. Woodworking projects were set up next to paintings that hung next to tables filled with vases of flowers. It looked like some weird sort of abstract installation, but Jack was constantly looking around at all of it and smiling.

“Isn’t that the entire point? Do the unexpected?” He asked. Jack had sold his house, moved into this condo and had gotten settled down in the past week and a half. I would be lying if I said I didn’t miss him when he went back home for a few weeks, but it was still strange that he was back.

Like there was this new layer of expectation and excitement to it.

We were talking every day now, just the two of us usually to make sure that he was doing okay. I was still worried about him. Cos that’s the only reason you’re talking to him. I ignored the mocking voice. I was here to support a new friend, he’d sold his house, his things and now he was in a brand new place. What if his decision had been too sudden and he came to regret uprooting his life?

“Yeah. I told you to get some excitement in your life, but I thought you would pick up golfing or something. All of this seems a little— ” I couldn’t even find the words for it. Jack from the little I knew of him didn’t seem like a spontaneous guy. So I was worried that he would come to regret this. But I seemed to be the only person worried about it. Elliot was too caught up in his excitement, having his dad closer. Scott was the one that had given him the idea in the first place. I hoped I was overreacting, but it didn’t feel like it.

I was the only one still struggling to understand it all. It was partly why we were talking every day now. I thought I was a crazy guy, but Jack seemed bent on beating me now. I could understand why he would want to, but all of it was still so sudden.

Or maybe you can’t comprehend someone’s parent putting them first. I shook off that thought.

“You think too much. Just enjoy the moment. You’re living your golden years, Tom. God knows that mine were wasted.” He sighed wistfully, drinking the rest of his coffee. My own drink was untouched.

“What would you have done? If you were young again?” Even before I was done speaking, Jack seemed to have an answer.

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