Chapter 137 Special, And Personal

• “Almost irresponsible,” Aiden assured him. “But don’t worry about it. I’ll help you out. Even if you don’t want to have lunch tomorrow, or, you know, ever, I can still be your cold-medicine buddy. But there might be other ways I could help out that I wouldn’t even know about yet, because we haven’t hung out enough. If you give me a bit of time, I bet I can find new ways to be useful.”
• “So I’d be your project. Your mom does a breast cancer gala, you do nerd outreach.”
• “No!” Aiden frowned. That denial had been a little more emphatic than was appropriate for a public place. He tried to be a bit quieter but no less intense when he said, “This is getting stupid. If you don’t want to hang out because you don’t like me, you should say so. But you haven’t