It was a good day, and I’d just needed to get out of my room. He showed up almost every day, and it still took me by surprise. I was still waiting for him to stop showing up like Austin had. He didn’t owe me anything, yet here he was. He smiled at me, sat down on the floor next to me, and looked at the Legos that I had spread across the floor. I was trying to decide what I wanted to build. It had been years since I’d played with Legos.“Hey,” I said, smiling at him.“Trying to hide from me, are you?” he joked“Yup,” I responded, not really meaning it.“You didn’t do a very good job,” he teased, making me smile.“Just needed to escape my room.” He just nodded. He had known without my having to tell him. He started picking up Legos and putting them together, and I did the same. I wasn’t sure what I was building; I just started to connect pieces. I looked at his creation curiously. It was small and awkwardly shaped but had walls with greens, reds, yellows, and blues.
