Chapter 86
Colby: It was a bit difficult. Well, it was and it wasn’t. The moment itself was almost easy—just falling into it, all the emotion, all the anguish. I did cry a bit after.
Jason: You did? You didn’t tell me that you—
Colby: No, you were busy—talking to Leo, I think—and it was only a bit. The release. I knew I hadn’t really lost you. I did want you to hold me, remember?
Jason: Yeah. That was nice. That’s alwaysnice.
Andy: Just so you all know, at home, they’re totally making out right now.
Colby: We are not!…perhaps a bit.
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Jill: Oh, this ending. God, you’re a good writer. You told me even from the beginning that you thought the ending felt wrong, too. You were right.
Colby: Oh, not wrong as much as…not right. Nothing against Ben’s work; it was beautiful writing, and more accurate to the book than my version is. It was only…I felt so tired of seeing the tragic stories, the unhappy gay characters, the loss and grief…I wanted something more. Something brighter.