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“Why
are you here? How did you ever find me?”
He
chuckled again, turned on his side, brushed the wet grass aside so he could see
them more clearly.
“You
told me about this place over a bottle of Grey Goose and Brit Coms.”
A
bark of laugher erupted from their throat, harsh, rough, but it was a pleasant
memory and damn, they needed those. “You laughed so hard you puked.”
“Yeah,
that was your fault too, never though those things would be even remotely
amusing.”
“That
doesn’t explain how you were able to find it.”
“We
always keep records of the towns we’ve visited and the places we’ve set up
shows. It wasn’t hard to backtrack through them and figure it out.”
“Why
would you go through that much effort for me?”
“Why
not. You didn’t call, you didn’t write, so when Isaac told me you’d come back
here, I figured I’d come find out what happened and make sure you were okay.
You said you’d never come back here so I figured something drastic had to
happen to change your mind.”
“My
father died.”
“Is
that a good thing or a bad thing?”
“I
don’t know yet.”
“They
I’ll wait ‘til you decide if you want condolences or a celebration.”
“That’s
harsh. I wouldn’t…I’d never…”
“Sorry.
I would though.”
“You
didn’t even know my old man.”
“I
was talking about mine.”
“Oh.”
Well Damn. Gypsy was stunned into
silence. That was the most honest he’d ever been. Open too. They glanced at him
to find that his gaze was back on the heavens and watching the rain pour down
around him, blinking as the drops got too close to his eyes.
“Have
you watched any since I left?” They asked softly, calmly, hoping to change the
subject as the rain slowed and water ran from their clothes to seep into the
earth beneath them, like their strength, which seemed to have been sucked right
out of them.
“Huh?”
He
rolled again, startled and messy, and they could see the confusion in their
eyes and were certain there was more to the story of why he’d come so far just
to check on them.
“Brit
coms. Did you keep watching them?”
“I
bought the whole damn series of Keeping Up Appearances, Chef too, and Fawlty
Towers but I make sure I don’t drink anything while I watch them.”
They
wanted to smile, but something told them that he hadn’t come here for anything
good. Their heart rate picked up again, their breath hitched, and they forgot
they were supposed to exhale before they tried to inhale again. All they could
picture was Randy dead in a coffin somewhere, and as much as they hated it,
that thought still bugged them immensely. A year later and they still couldn’t
get him out of their head, still couldn’t look at anyone else and not compare
them to the prince turned frog who’d wrecked everything they’d hoped a
relationship could turn out to be.
“Relax,
what’s wrong?” that deep voice rumbled, calling them back, calming them down in
slow increments.
“He’s
dead, isn’t he, what happened? H-how did he….”
“Whoa,
whoa, wait, he isn’t dead, far from it, actually,” he assured them, hand
hovering over their arm, pausing inches away from touching.
“Then
why…”
“Spending
so much time in my own head hasn’t been too good for me,” he interrupted,
sighing as gave them a sheepish shrug “I needed to disappear and lay low for a
while. The cops aren’t after me, I promise. If they were I wouldn’t have come
here, I’d have just turned myself in for the three meals and the free bed.”
“I’d
let you stay even if they were,” they told him, meeting his eyes for the first
time since he’d arrived. Both of them knew Gypsy meant it.
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