Chapter6

#Chapter6

/"I'm sorry, Joel./"

The worlds lingered in the air, filling the space between us. He looked up, his eyes gleaming in the artificial glow of the kitchen light. I couldn't tell what he was thinking; in a millisecond, more emotions played across his face than those in the entire time I had known him. Eventually, he sighed.

/"You were stupid last night, Asa,/" he said, flipping the cover of his puzzle book, pushing it into the middle of the table.

/"I'm sorry,/" I said repeated. A lump welled in my throat, the overwhelming sensation of letting him down filling me. /"I shouldn't have called you, I should have-/"

/"Don't be ridiculous,/" Joel cut me off. /"I meant you were stupid for getting that drunk in the first place. You were outside when I found you. Do you know the things that could have happened to you if you started wandering the streets like that? God, Asa, you.../" He shook his head, trailing off.