Scorpio
Within Easy Company they had made the best friends they had ever had, or would ever have. They were prepared to die for each other; more important, they were prepared to kill for each other.
Stephen E. Ambrose
The conversation you keep putting off is the one your body has already started having without words. You find yourself noticing what they do not ask about, how they change the subject, the way silence fills the space where a question should be. What you want from this talk is not agreement or resolution but the relief of finally naming what has been sitting between you both. The waiting is not kindness to either of you. It is the conversation itself, stretched thin across weeks, happening in glances and careful topics and the things you do not say when you call.