A Love Mess: Who loves who?
He sat with that for a minute, the two of them quiet on the couch, and then, almost without meaning to, Arlen's hand went up to his own hair—longer than he usually kept it, shaggy at this point, uncut for weeks because cutting his hair had felt like such an absurdly small, pointless thing to do while his whole life was coming apart.
He'd let it grow because Justin had liked it that way. He realized that only as the thought arrived, fully formed and unwelcome: he'd kept growing it out these past months because Justin had run his fingers through it once and said something about how he liked it long, and Arlen had just kept it, without ever really deciding to.
"I want to cut my hair," he said s