- Ian and his boyfriend Dylan were waiting in reception, the both of them springing up from the plastic blue chairs at her entrance. Aiden's younger brother held her tightly, his body shaking just like hers. He'd been told the story from Leo, but he doesn't know the details. What it was that their father said to set Aiden off. He knew it was something bad, though. He didn't have to be told exactly what to know that.
The reception area was like a hospital, the lights far too bright to be comfortable being under. The small room had blue plastic chairs all along the edges, about five to seven other occupants taking up their own corners of the room. It was quiet apart from the buzzing of pagers and murmuring of officers beyond the reception desk. Once in a while, they'd walk through the doors
