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  1. Public Bookmark 18

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    Somehow, Matt has become an adult before Jay. He goes on runs, lifts, cooks at home, reads, takes more than 2 showers a week, goes out on the weekends, does his laundry consistently. It drives Jay crazy. It's not fair. He goes back to sleep, pulling the covers over his head, hoping that maybe he'll disappear.

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    05 Jun 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 29

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    The apartment is the kind of quiet that means Jay has a girl over.

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    05 Jun 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 24

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    “Ok. Yeah. So you - you…” Matt nodded, slowly. “We - me? You - yeah…huh. And me. Us! Ok, eight years. Eight big, big years. Matt, and Jay. This entire time. So…so cool.”
    He sunk down onto his knees on the couch, still nodding, with a dumbfounded, agonized grin on his face.

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    Jay was humiliated when he realized that he'd been dating Matt for about four years. In another four years, Matt will lose his mind completely when he realizes he's been dating Jay for eight.

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    05 Jun 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 43

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    Obviously Matt’s aware that Jay looks good in a suit. It’s more something about the way he holds himself, still and straight, self possessed. That's not a Jay posture. It’s the weirdest thing, it makes Matt feel almost starstruck – so much so that when their eyes catch, it punches the breath out of him. There’s Jay, regular, but there’s someone else too, also Jay. That's when it catches up.

    Maddy and her friend think Jay is his boyfriend. That word, boyfriend, crashes into his head so hard that for a split second he’s afraid he said it out loud. Earlier, Jules asked how long have you two been… and Matt, assuming he knew the end of the question, said since we were like 12 or something. Jay heard that happen. Not only that, he played along. They grinned at each other conspiratorially about it.

    The only reason Matt would ever go to a family wedding is if he and Jay could get a show at The Rivoli out of it. The plan: Play the wedding, bring the house down, and get his cousin and her friends to book them for an after party. The part where they pretend to be a couple, threatening decades of load-bearing repression, comes out of nowhere – at least for Matt, it does.

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    05 Jun 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 39

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    Two key truths had remained constant for Jay McCarrol since his childhood: one, Matt was always there; and two, Jay had no real sense of direction in his life.

    On the rare occasions in which he had allowed himself to reflect on it, Jay had always ended up reaching the same conclusion: a change in number one must be the key to changing number two.

    After experiencing a timeline without Matt at his side and making the decision to go back to set things right, though, Jay realizes how much he values the life that they have together, and it finally occurs to him that maybe the purpose that he’s been searching for his whole life has been right there in front of him the entire time.

     

    Or, Jay decides to propose to Matt.

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    04 Jun 2026