|ROWAN’S POV| “Thank you for coming over.” I expelled my breath, and he stepped aside for me to walk into the place I’d grown up in. Now full of empty cases of beer, the smell of what would send any girl running, and the look of a man who has never lived alone once in his life but will graciously throw away the people in his life. I put on a big grin and gave my brother a once-over. Yeah, those aren’t clean sweatpants. Dear god, what happened to him? We’ve only been gone for a week. What will he do in a year? Shave off his head and die in filth? I don’t have any ocd but I feel the gem crawling up my skin. “Do you clean? Ever?” I had to ask him because the only clean spot I could find in the living room was .... uh.... actually none. “I ... I’ll admit when you and Adeline did it, I