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"I need to talk to you," he slurred at me. I shook my head.
"Kyra’s asleep," I warned him. "And if you make any noise, I’ll-"
"I’ll be quiet," he promised me. "Please, Jo. I just...I need to speak to you about this. It’s important."
I hesitated for a moment. As though things weren’t complicated enough already...but, shit, could I really just turn my back on him like that? He looked as though he was really going through something...
"Fine, come in," I told him. "But stay quiet. I don’t want to have to explain to Kyra why you’re here."
"Has she been asking about me?" he wondered aloud hopefully. I sighed but then nodded.
"Yeah, she has," I admitted. She had asked me a few times when he was coming to visit again, and I didn’t have the heart to tell her that I had no idea if he was ever planning to. She was just an innocent little thing, and the last thing I wanted was to throw this confusing relationship into her life.
"Is that what you came here about?" I asked him, and he shook his head.
"No, I – there's something else I needed to tell you about..." he told me, and I nodded to the couch.
"Sit down," I ordered him. "You need a glass of water. Several, actually. Why the hell are you this drunk?"
He didn’t reply as he slumped down into the couch, and I poured him a large glass of water and handed it to him; he chugged it down at once, and then wiped his mouth and turned to me.
"Can you sit down?" he asked me. I stood right where I was.
"Please, Jo," he pleaded with me. "I just...I need to know you’re not going anywhere."
I sighed and sank down next to him.
"It’s my house," I reminded him. "Where the hell would I be going?"
"I don’t know," he muttered. "I just..."
He trailed off. I had never seen him this out of it before like he had no idea how to hold himself together. What was going on with him? It didn’t suit him, and it freaked me out, to see him this lost.
"What are you here for, Avda?" I demanded. I needed an answer. I couldn’t have him sticking around here – what if Kyra heard him and came through? I didn’t want to have to explain what he was doing here when she was around, it would have been so confusing for her...
"Sasha’s going to tell you something about me," he confessed. I frowned.
"He is? What?”
He took a deep breath like he was preparing himself as best he could for what came next.
"He’s going to tell you...he’s going to tell you I kissed him."
I stared at him in utter confusion.
"And why the hell would he say something like that?" I asked him. I had no idea what he was getting at here, but something was nagging at the back of my mind – like pieces were slotting into place, and I was just a few inches away from piecing them all together.
"Because...because I did."
Those words hung in the silence between us. I couldn’t believe what I had just heard.
"You kissed him...?"
"Yeah, I kissed him, okay?" he shot back, almost angry, but I could tell it was aimed at himself, not at me.
"Why?" I asked. None of this made sense to me. He had been so defensive and disgusted when I had mentioned that Sasha was into guys too, and now, he was telling me this.
"I don’t know," he blurted out, his voice strained. "I...I wanted to, I guess."
