Chapter 56

“Go! Get out of here!”

The second time, he listened. He turned and ran.

* * * *

A loud snort from Archie brought me around.

“God, what an asshole I am.”

I wanted to keep right on scowling, but Archie’s full on snoring made my face go another way.

“Damn, dude,” I whispered. “So, this is what it would be like to sleep beside you?” I couldn’t hold back a laugh. The walls were nearly shaking. “I’ve wondered. I pretended for a bit. I thought it might even happen, there, just a little while ago, when you explained how you weren’t half my age anymore. A little while…”

I ruminated on that.

“Years, ago, huh? Suddenly, you were the age I’d been when you were born, and I was coming up on forty. Then, you were twenty-something, and I was inmy forties. If only I could have gone backwards a little bit, until we caught up.”