When the box office finally opened and the line started moving, Micah stayed with Marty, and Rick trailed behind them like a third wheel. At one point as they shuffled along, Micah asked Marty, “Where’s your kid?”
“I don’t have one,” Marty told him. “I’m here all by myself.”
Micah’s hand slipped into Marty’s as if to comfort him. “That’s okay. You can sit with us, if you want to.”
Who has a boyfriend now? Rick thought with a grin. He’d never say the words out loud, though; Micah wouldn’t see it as teasing. He was comfortable saying such things about his own father because he knew Rick was gay, but if someone said the same thing about him, he got defensive. Hell, at his age, he didn’t even like girls yet.
But talk about Pokémon, and he’s yours for life.
By the time they made it through
