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The seconds tick steadily by. Andrew blinks slowly at the TV as a penguin falls off a craggy mountain. Neil drinks the water.
“This isn’t my shirt,” Neil notes several minutes later.
Andrew casts him a look, unimpressed by Neil’s subpar observational skills, as he should be. The black PSU t-shirt is soft and well-worn, stretched through the shoulders enough that the neck doesn’t creep up Neil’s collarbone to choke him out; there’s no mistaking it for one of Neil’s.
They sit, sagging deeper into the cushions as the documentary shifts from penguins to gazelles. Neil tries to understand the underlying theme of the show, but then it shifts to rainbow shrimp, and he gives up. He’s gotten better at picking his battles, he thinks
Neil dreams of Baltimore and wakes tacky and wrong. Andrew guides the pieces of him back together. They find peace in the in-between times of morning and night and take advantage of a suite with sleeping roommates.