Fics like love is the bright good days as a bargain

“You okay?” Ryan asks. “Sophie’s down?” “Just about. This was much easier at 22 than it is at 42, I’ll tell you that,” she responds wryly. She kisses his cheek, settles into her chair, pulling her knee up to her chest. He slides a cup of tea over the table to her. “You okay, sweetie? We missed you at Friday dinner last week.” “Yeah, yeah.” He searches for an excuse. “Finals,” he offers, because really, how does one tell their Sandy-and-Kirsten that he didn’t come home because he met someone and kissed him and now the thought of spending the summer apart from him was insufferable and he’s been so happy that he didn’t even think of the family that followed him to Berkeley, and because everything in his life is a bargain he may have missed that they’re falling apart? -- Or, a Berkeley era Ryan and Kirsten talk.

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