Considering I was terrible company, it was the least I could do for you.
[ The words are too heavy, maybe - but they come out before he can stop them, because Avery isn't the only one who feels guilty.
He could try to laugh it off, but he's never quite had the talent for it. Too serious, too straightlaced in his own way - though he'd gone along with Avery's bad ideas more than once, even if it was just to keep him out of trouble, because he was one of the two people in his life that could have ever convinced him to do things that nobody else could get away with.
But those days are gone and past and all of them have changed too much to ever go back.
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[ The words are too heavy, maybe - but they come out before he can stop them, because Avery isn't the only one who feels guilty.
He could try to laugh it off, but he's never quite had the talent for it. Too serious, too straightlaced in his own way - though he'd gone along with Avery's bad ideas more than once, even if it was just to keep him out of trouble, because he was one of the two people in his life that could have ever convinced him to do things that nobody else could get away with.
But those days are gone and past and all of them have changed too much to ever go back.
He sits, and doesn't look at him. ]