[Granted, Tim probably hasn't had a birthday party since he was, what, eight? Maybe even before. He wasn't assigned a special day, where classmates were invited over and party favors were handed out and pizza was distributed and cake was cut just because that's what's done, not because you asked for it. This has got to feel weird as shit, honestly.]
[How must it have felt for Alex?]
[It's got to feel like Jay went to the trouble of hosting some kind of event, with weird food and, like, special occasion stuff just because Tim Wright exists, or something.]
[...In a sense, though, that's what he just did. Hanging out, especially one-on-one, isn't something Jay's really done in a long time, and he's doing it right now, because...Tim Wright still exists, despite everything. He's still the same prickly, evasive piece of shit as always, and he's still here.]
[And that somehow manages to be significant enough to merit cake.]
'M just glad you're here. [He mumbles it, not meeting Tim's eyes.] I mean, you've...been here. For a lot. And there were, like, periods of time when you weren't here, or weren't--weren't there, but now you are. Obviously. [He gestures blindly in Tim's general direction.] And I guess I didn't really realize how much I'd gotten used to that.
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[Granted, Tim probably hasn't had a birthday party since he was, what, eight? Maybe even before. He wasn't assigned a special day, where classmates were invited over and party favors were handed out and pizza was distributed and cake was cut just because that's what's done, not because you asked for it. This has got to feel weird as shit, honestly.]
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How must it have felt for Alex?][It's got to feel like Jay went to the trouble of hosting some kind of event, with weird food and, like, special occasion stuff just because Tim Wright exists, or something.]
[...In a sense, though, that's what he just did. Hanging out, especially one-on-one, isn't something Jay's really done in a long time, and he's doing it right now, because...Tim Wright still exists, despite everything. He's still the same prickly, evasive piece of shit as always, and he's still here.]
[And that somehow manages to be significant enough to merit cake.]
'M just glad you're here. [He mumbles it, not meeting Tim's eyes.] I mean, you've...been here. For a lot. And there were, like, periods of time when you weren't here, or weren't--weren't there, but now you are. Obviously. [He gestures blindly in Tim's general direction.] And I guess I didn't really realize how much I'd gotten used to that.