He started crying.
Chris had just left a meeting where Ethan’s doctors had told us another treatment had failed.
Walking past Leo, he snapped, “Could you celebrate somewhere else?”
The hallway fell silent.
Leo apologized.
Chris regretted it almost immediately but never went back to make things right.
Ethan had witnessed everything from his doorway.
Leo had seen him too.
The following afternoon, Leo stopped by Ethan’s room, challenged him to one game on the plastic football field, lost badly, and never once asked how Ethan was feeling.
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