Chapter 9

Love you!Justin added. Have fun! Also I’m getting a surprise for you! Oh wait Anna says I’m not allowed to say that! But too late!

Love you,Kris typed back, feeling older by comparison. But not tooold. Not when Justin loved him.

He looked up to find Reggie smiling at him, and complained, “What?”

“Nothing,” Reg said. “Nice to see you happy. Also I know what your surprise is. Terrifying Best Friend told me.”

“So can you just—”

“No.”

Kris muttered a word or two.

“Love you. Show me your ring designs again.”

“No.”

“Please?”

“Fine. Tell me whether you like them better in gold or white gold, and which you think he’d like…”

Reggie proved to be astonishingly helpful. Kris glanced out an airplane window, and wondered why London, and what they’d do.

What they did, apparently, began with the absolute poshest hotel, the sort they would’ve been summarily ejected from all those years ago. Kris looked at heavy crystal chandeliers and said, “Wait, weren’t we actuallykicked out of—”