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“I mean, I love him. Why wouldn’t I invite him to move in? He loves the town. He loves Quin and Quin will be here. It just makes sense, right?”
“And how do you feel about it?”
Titus huffed.
“Nervous. I mean, that’s a big step, isn’t it?”
“Do you love him?”
“No doubt.”
“Do you think you two will get along if you lived together?”
“I hope so. I know we have fun when we’re together. It just feels like a lot to have him there every day.”
“I get that,” I admitted.
“What about you? You think you could live with Merri? For the summer, I mean? Do you think you two would get along?”
“At university, the two of us were inseparable.”
“Just like me and Lou.”
“So, I guess neither of us will have that hard of a time adjusting,” I suggested.
“I guess we won’t,” Titus said with a smile.
“Are you going to invite Lou to move in?”
“I guess I’ll have to. You know, with you being in Florida for the summer and all,” he said with a smile.
I grabbed Titus in a hug. “Thanks. I appreciate you.”
“I appreciate you too, bro,” Titus told me, giving me the encouragement I needed to go.
It didn’t take long before training with Merri felt like we were back at university. Our days were filled with wind sprints and passing drills while our nights were all about the PlayStation.
But as much effort as I was putting into training, it didn’t feel like I was making any progress. Merri noticed the same thing, calling it a plateau. He kept reassuring me that I would push through it. But when more time passed and I hadn’t, I started to doubt everything.
“It’s nice to see that I can still beat you at something,” Merri said, crushing me at Mario Kart.
“If I’d played all of the time instead of having a life, I would be that good too.”
“I call bullshit! Because there was no way you ever had a life without me. You forget that I know you.”
“Okay, you’re right. After graduating I did spend most of my nights reading.”
“Oh my God, I’m so sorry,” he said painfully. “Leaving me forced you to read?”
“You say it like it was a life sentence,” I pointed out, amused.
“But wasn’t it? I mean, wasn’t it just as bad?”
“You’re an idiot.”
“Look at you, full of compliments.”
That made me freeze. As much as I had tried, I had also been failing at the other thing I was here to practice.
