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AIDEN
I took on more graphic design side jobs to keep me busy, but when not at the gym or designing online, I pulled out my newest sketchbook and set to work on those characters I’d created with Jed in mind.
Two young lovers, both male, the push and pull between them evident in every scene I drew.
Ten images, hours poured into each, and still, my inspiration behind the couple hadn’t seen them.
For three days, I allowed Jed room to breathe, to figure out the s**t at the church. I would have offered to help in whatever way I could if only he had opened up to me with the truth of what Welker had done.
But he wanted to cover the sins of the spiritual authority in his life, that much I expected from having spent a few years in the same church. Welker had taken the pulpit while I’d been
