Ty was quiet for a long time. “And Will? I mean the Will you’re been talking to.”
“What about him?”
“What has he got to say about being stood up?”
Oh…“I haven’t…” Quincy grimaced at the ceiling.
“Oh, for f**k’s sake, Quincy! Somewhere out there is a man all dressed up waiting for his date to show—well, I guess he’s not waiting anymore now, he’s moved on to the whiskey.”
“I don’t even know if he’s real!” Though the guilt swamping his mind grew stronger and stronger. Somewhere in this city a person he’d been talking to for the last few months had been waiting for him today, and he hadn’t shown. “Fuck.”
“Yeah, I’d phrase it about the same way. You have some serious groveling to do. Seriously, Quinny, how can you be so selfish?”
“I didn’t mean to, I just—”
“No! Imagine if it had been y
