“Yeah, you have. But what will I do without you?” I asked, not sobbing at all.

“I’ll be around. We’ll still do pizza and movie nights, yeah? Like on Fridays or something.”

“Yes, please.”

Angus shrugged. “And I think Hennessy wants a kitten, and you can use my room to put your bookcases in and get that library you’ve always dreamed of.”

So of course I started to cry again, and I looked at Hennessy. “You want a cat?”

He nodded. “Mr Collins’ cat had kittens, remember? He showed us the photos?”

“They were cute!” I said. “And we’re going to get one?”

“Well, yeah,” Hennessy said, all adorable and shy-like. “I asked Mr Collins and he said yes, and there’s a little boy cat that’s the cute one and I’ve already named him Lord Byron.”

Again with the tears.

So many tears.

Hennessy pulled me in for a hug and tucked me snug into his side. “How about we all grab a table at Sunan’s?” he said, kissing the side of my head. “We can order bowls of mango fries and bottles of wine. It seems we have much to celebrate.”

“Yes!” I said, trying to pull myself together. “Like the next sixty-something years.”

I took Hennessy’s hand, and surrounded by our very best friends, we walked, laughing out into Crown Street. Together, as I imagined we always would be, into the rest of our lives.

The End

About the Author

N.R. Walker is an Australian author, who loves her genre of gay romance. She loves writing and spends far too much time doing it, but wouldn’t have it any other way.

She is many things: a mother, a wife, a sister, a writer. She has pretty, pretty boys who live in her head, who don’t let her sleep at night unless she gives them life with words.

She likes it when they do dirty, dirty things… but likes it even more when they fall in love.

She used to think having people in her head talking to her was weird, until one day she happened across other writers who told her it was normal.

She’s been writing ever since…

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