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Drew wasn’t sure if he was supposed to offer to go with him or not, and came down on the side ofnotin case he looked intense, creepy, and codependent. “Um. Okay, well, I’ll catch you later.”
Kit bent down, kissed him goodbye, and started picking his way between the sleeping bags and the empty snack bowls.
“Mate,” said Sanee, “why are you running out on us?”
Kit froze by the doorway. “Um, I’m going to catch up with some friends inHoL.”
“Wow, and I thought I was a nerd.”
Awkward.
Kit had gone kind of red. “Yeah, see you later.”
He hurried out.
Steff whacked Sanee in the arm. “Why are you being such a dick?”
“I wasn’t being a dick. I was inviting him to stay. I like the guy.”
“Squidge, it’s not a personal insult when someone wants to leave your house.”10
Drew wasn’t sure where to look or what to feel. Obviously Kit had a right to go home when he wanted to, but he was still weirdly hurt. It wasn’t like Kit had anything else on, so it just felt uncomfortably like being rejected.
They sort of hung until about four, and then Sanee suggested they crack open Cards Against Humanity. Which, after two rounds of play, Tinuviel actively hated.
“I think my fundamental problem,” she explained, “is that it bills itself as a card game for horrible people but feels more like a card game for people who want to try very hard to prove how horrible they are.”
So they played Dixit instead.
And Drew tried not to miss Kit. And worried he was being needy, and worried that Kit didn’t like his friends, or that his friends felt insulted, or that Sanee was right and Kit had needed to run away for his MMO fix. Basically he just worried.
He got home late, and logged in toHoLto do his dailies.
[Guild][Ialdir]: Yo
[Guild][Morag]: Hey
[Guild][Heurodis]: cant talk must pewpew
[Guild][Solace]: Hi Drew??
[Guild][Mordant]: Hi
[Guild][Orcarella]: Hi
[Solace] whispers: Sorry for bailing earlier
To [Solace]: it’s fine. are you okay?
[Solace] whispers: Yes, I’m good
To [Solace]: so why’d you leave?
[Solace] whispers: Like I said, I just wanted to be at home
[Solace] whispers: Also I hadn’t logged in to HoL in a while
[Solace] whispers: So I wanted to say hi to everyone
