Chad kept talking as if he hadn’t heard the question. “All that talk about your father making you go to Lewis’s service was just another one of your lies.”
Ash blinked. “I was hurting, Chad. I needed to find a way to be close to Ben, to say goodbye, but I wasn’t ready to talk about my relationship with him. Making up that excuse about my dad forcing me to go to the church seemed like a plan at the time.”
He frowned and then stood. “What do you mean, ‘just another one of my lies.’ You and me, we were tight. I never lied to you.”
“Oh no, Ash. You didn’t lie. You just went out every weekend with me, f*****g girls and pretending like you weren’t a total fag. What in the hell do you call that, if it isn’t lying?”
Ash was shaking. Jamie stood as well, flanking Ash’s left side, ready to back
