He shouted, “You will not kill my girlfriend today, International Terrorist of Ambiguous Nationality!”
It crossed my mind to fake a choking incident or something so that he might give me the Heimlich.
Maybe then he could rid himself of this fear that his life had been lived and lost for no greater good.
But then I imagined him being physically unable to Heimlich, and me having to reveal that it was all a ruse, and the ensuing mutual humiliation.
It’s hard as hell to hold on to your dignity when the risen sun is too bright in your losing eyes,
and that’s what I was thinking about as we hunted for bad guys through the ruins of a city that didn’t exist.
Finally, his dad came down and dragged Gus back upstairs, and in the entryway,
beneath an Encouragement telling me that Friends Are Forever, I knelt to kiss him good night.
I went home and ate dinner with my parents, leaving Gus to eat (and puke up) his own dinner.
After some TV, I went to sleep. I woke up. Around noon, I went over there again.
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
One morning, a month after returning home from Amsterdam, I drove over to his house.
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