Once in a lifetime
Asher said at the wall, grinning, water dripping off both of us after a hard morning set.
"I am not."
"You are. Some things never change." He bumped my shoulder, easy, familiar, none of the old edge left in it except the part we both still genuinely enjoyed. "Race you to the wall on the next fifty. Loser buys breakfast."
"You're on."
Marcus and Mum called most Sundays now, their business trip abroad having stretched into something closer to a semi-permanent overseas post, though they flew back for every meet that mattered and had made peace, slowly, with exactly what this was between their sons. Mum had cried, unexpectedly, the first time Asher introduced me at a family dinner without qualif