Protecting you he could have said. Should have said. But Alex was tired. Tired of caring for a man he hardly knew. Tired of this back and forth that had been going on for ten years that always ended up leaving his heart broken. What he should have done long ago was find someone else and move on, but every time he tried, it felt like a betrayal.
"All I know is that you were the boy I fell in love with in high school. And that my father ruined one of the only things that seemed to make you happy. I barely knew the boy except for how he made me feel and I know the man even less."
Ever single of those things he said was true. It was what he wasn't saying. That he still felt that connection that he couldn't explain. That he still would rush to defend Michael from other people even when shunning him for being a thief.
"That's what I know. The rest...doesn't matter. I've got something to give you and then you can have my dad's keycode and passwords and you can go find out for himself what he knows."
Alex turned and walked back inside. He'd put the shard that he'd found downstairs in his gun safe in the bedroom and so that's where he headed, letting Michael choose or not to follow him.
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Date: 2019-03-21 08:34 am (UTC)"All I know is that you were the boy I fell in love with in high school. And that my father ruined one of the only things that seemed to make you happy. I barely knew the boy except for how he made me feel and I know the man even less."
Ever single of those things he said was true. It was what he wasn't saying. That he still felt that connection that he couldn't explain. That he still would rush to defend Michael from other people even when shunning him for being a thief.
"That's what I know. The rest...doesn't matter. I've got something to give you and then you can have my dad's keycode and passwords and you can go find out for himself what he knows."
Alex turned and walked back inside. He'd put the shard that he'd found downstairs in his gun safe in the bedroom and so that's where he headed, letting Michael choose or not to follow him.