Gone and Back Again
Neil Josten kissed Andrew Minyard, told him his life story, that he could stand on his own, and that Andrew didn’t need to protect him anymore. Then Neil Josten vanished. Except now, years later, he’s showed up again – shot and bleeding out.
Chapters: 3/3
“Thank you. You were amazing.”
Andrew slammed the phone cradled between his hands back onto the table and white knuckled his lighter to the tip of another cigarette.
“Fuck off,” he muttered to a phantom boy sitting across the table from him, something sad and sorry and blank in his eyes. And something scared and determined, too.
Kevin had told them, after. About all the truths hidden between the lies. The FBI told them later − Nathaniel Wesninski had escaped his father, badly injured, had slipped their custody, and was most likely deceased.
He’d known where he was going. He’d known that fight would break out, and he’d known he would be taken. And he’d left Andrew with those damn last words.
Andrew pulled the cigarette from his mouth and watched the smoke wind a thin tendril upward. Hated that holding it made him think of him, and hating even more that he’d taken to simply sticking a lit cigarette between two fingers to watch it burn down rather than smoke it because he wanted to be reminded.
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