"I haven't been accepted or anything," I said a little dismissively, but I was smiling back in spite of it. Few people knew what a big deal this was for me. I'm not even sure I knew how big of a deal it was back then. It was planning for a future I'd never dreamt I'd have until relatively recently. "But it should be good, if I do."

It wasn't why I'd come, but I (perhaps a little selfishly) wanted to bask in that for just a few seconds more before I brought up the boy who looked so hauntingly like Tommy. I knew it wasn't an uncommon occurrence, I'd met two other men that looked like Paul, but I'd never expected to find one of... him, I guess, in Darrow. I raised my brow as she grabbed wine glasses, then inhaled sharply. "I ran into someone today. At the college. Someone who... reminded me of someone. Looked just like him, actually. He was younger, but. It was there."