“Not to one-up you or anything, but my body is made out of cancer.”
“So I heard,” Isaac said, trying not to let it get to him.
He fumbled toward Gus’s hand and found only his thigh. “I’m taken,” Gus said.
Isaac’s mom brought over two dining room chairs, and Isaac and I sat down next to Gus.
I took Gus’s hand, stroking circles around the space between his thumb and forefinger.
The adults headed down to the basement to commiserate or whatever, leaving the three of us alone in the living room.
After a while, Augustus turned his head to us, the waking up slow.
“How’s Monica?” he asked. “Haven’t heard from her once,” Isaac said.
“No cards; no emails. I got this machine that reads me my emails. It’s awesome.
I can change the voice’s gender or accent or whatever.”
“So I can like send you a porn story and you can have an old German man read it to you?” “Exactly,” Isaac said.
“Although Mom still has to help me with it, so maybe hold off on the German porno for a week or two.”
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