And I know I can’t control what happens between you guys.” He pauses. Gay sex I felt ashamed to bring it up with you because maybe we were just drunk. The focus isn’t solely on jealousy; it’s on the broken trust within his friendship with Hayden.I stare down at the coffee cooling in my hands, unsure of what to say. He stops a few feet away, arms crossed.No one speaks for a minute until Hayden clears his throat. “You think he’s gonna bail on us?”I shake my head, but I’m not sure. Hayden watches me fold it under my arm with a curious look.”For ground cover,” I whisper, flashing a quick smile. Let’s get out of here.”And just like that, we head uphill, three sets of boots crunching over pine needles, gravel, and silence.We’re about twenty minutes up the trail when Brendan finally speaks again.The sun’s made it high enough now to catch the dew dripping off the lodgepole pines, and we’re walking single file, with Hayden up ahead and Brendan just behind me. “And… I have a thing for you in that Eddie Bauer puffer.” I remember him wearing it all yesterday: the light blue nylon, almost a match for the interior of my old Cat’s Meow.Hayden chuckles softly against my hair.
