He nodded, understanding. It was hard to stay in touch with someone, at a distance. And not even oceans, really – there were other gulfs that couldn’t couldn’t be bridged any better. If she saw him soon, she might as well see him more often than Theo did, nowadays.
He felt the feeling flicker across his face briefly, a dull ache of loneliness or something else, and he considered her unspoken question, tentatively. No, there was – nothing to say now that hadn’t already been said. So he shook his head, just slightly, and said, the words coming out – horribly stilted, because he didn’t know if anyone else found the thought still as unpalatable and incomprehensible as he did. “Well, I hope things are – good with him. You know, and with – his wife. And the baby coming.” (Theo could still hardly believe that Cash was married, let alone the rest.)
He felt the feeling flicker across his face briefly, a dull ache of loneliness or something else, and he considered her unspoken question, tentatively. No, there was – nothing to say now that hadn’t already been said. So he shook his head, just slightly, and said, the words coming out – horribly stilted, because he didn’t know if anyone else found the thought still as unpalatable and incomprehensible as he did. “Well, I hope things are – good with him. You know, and with – his wife. And the baby coming.” (Theo could still hardly believe that Cash was married, let alone the rest.)
