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I spent the rest of the afternoon into the evening at Brandon's apartment, sitting on his couch, talking and watching movies we'd already seen a million times before. That way, whenever I got interrupted to work on something, he didn't have to pause the movie. He's always been understanding about me having to mentally step away for a minute, but I felt like he was even more so with everything I had going on.

After the leadership team met, Elliott came in and said, "Well, we're headed to Hungary."

We'd been watching Office Space, and Brandon did pause it for that. "Me, too?" he asked, hopeful.

"Not sure yet. I'm guessing Aaron will let you know."

That sounded like a cop out to me, like Elliott didn't want to tell Brandon he couldn't go. He walked down the hall a few steps before he came back into the living room. I'd hoped he'd have more news, but he just looked at our hands, intertwined on the couch between us, and asked, "Back together?"