For the next two days, while awaiting news of my father, Xander and I would begin to grow closer in a way more than carnal. While bonding over the vapid food offered by the hospital cafeteria, we would discuss mutual experiences and likes and dislikes, learning how much we truly had in common and the surprising goals we held for the future that were rather synonymous with each other. But in the times we were gathered with the majority of my family, Blaine would inquire over his occupation as my sisters would question his intentions with me, whereas my mother would make every excuse to escape the scene as she had egg on her face from the treatment of me in rival to that of what I had deserved. I knew a day would come that we would find a peace between us, but it would take time for healing
