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“I’m upstairs!” Sebastian responded and Stefano went to the stairs, dread starting to build in him. He didn’t like all this sneaking around, he didn’t know what Sebastian was planning, what he was doing, but for some reason, for many reasons, Stefano could only think that whatever Sebastian was up to would be a problem. He thought back to the week before, that strange phone call that he’d never asked about. That had been the start of all this. He went up the stairs slowly, trying to formulate what he was going to say. He could pretend that he hadn’t noticed anything, that Lily hadn’t said anything, and just go along as if he didn’t know there was anything the matter. He didn’t want to do that, he wanted to nip this in the bud. There was an iceburg in his chest. He went to their bedroom. Again, he felt like he should knock. There was that 4am isolation, that feeling where the house is bigger than remembered, when the floorboards creaked more loudly, that felt of a terrible nostalgia he didn’t remember the cause of. It made the iceburg freeze the muscles around it.
“Yeah, it’s yours,” Sebastian kissed his cheek. “It was a bitch to find too.” Stefano opened the book, finding it filled with photographs, most of which he didn’t remember taking, but all of them his. They all had explanations beside them, what the photograph meant to him and to the world. Most of them were nudes and flowers and terribly staged. He’d improved so much since then. “Lily can’t look at this,” Stefano decided, his heart buzzing, another feeling that he didn’t have a name for taking over him. It felt like all of him was about to vibrate out of his skin. It felt felt good, wonderful. He couldn’t stop smiling, even as he realized that he was crying. He didn’t know if he’d ever felt so much in one go. “Page 94,” Sebastian instructed, wiping the tears from Stefano’s cheeks so they wouldn’t drip onto the paper. Stefano flipped to it and there it was, taking up the entire page, his masterpiece, the photo that changed it all. Kyle Marks, in all of his glory, flames and shrapnel piercing him, an explosion of blood and life, a bouquet of everything he had been. Tucked between the pages was a note in Sebastian’s hand.
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