Archie had to go to Theo’s clinic. Though his best friend assured him that the testing would take days, he wanted to be there for the sake of his own guilt. He wasn’t there when Aspen was born and there was no one to blame for that but fate, and witnessing the commencement of the testing was more sentimental to him.
It’s like he’s going to be there at a momentous time for him and Aspen. His guts tell him that he had to be there, so when it says positive, he won’t regret that he wasn’t. Archie knew that deep inside, he was not hopeful, he was sure.
The woman he slept with in Daytona was Aspen’s mother. Back then, it would not have mattered because he would never ask her to have coffee with her in the morning. But she was gone before he could regain his consciousness and he went on with
