28.

For two weeks, O'Connell didn't see Ronan. Even when he went to Ronan's apartment to check if he was around, it was just his friend O'Connell had seen.

 

He began missing Ronan's presence whenever he went to that particular restaurant, and and Ronan wasn't there. O'Connell began wondering if it was because of what had transpired between them on that night, that Ronan had refused coming to the restaurant. 

The way Ronan had bade him goodnight and left, had seem somewhat final. That Ronan would stop being his friend, and leave him alone. But He hadn't taken it serious. He thought he was going to see Ronan again the next day. 

But when he didn't see him the whole of that week, he began wondering if Ronan had made the decision to stop coming around. And when O'Connell didn't see him at the restaurant either, he didn't want to think Ronan had stopped coming there as well. It felt so unusual with him absent on there.

But why would Rona