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In the middle of the night...
Avalon can't sleep. He's been bothered by some stuff, and he's been having a hard time recoiling it within his head. A lot of it has to do with Henry and the fact that Avalon knows that there is a certain amount of himself that Henry withholds form him. He can see it when Josh and Henry are together, and it's hard on him. In some ways, he wishes that he wasn't empathic and that he wasn't some weird alien and that he was just a normal kid from Earth.
Of course rationally he knows that everything happens for a reason, and if not for him then things back home on Naltor would be very different. It doesn't stop Avalon from wishing for those things. In fact, in the end, he finds tears falling from his eyes as he simply thinks about the things that he would never be able to get back in his life that others take for granted. School is an immediate example - even though Avalon hasn't mentioned it to anyone, it's been incredibly hard for him. He's had to study long into the night, buried under his blankets with a flashlight to even try and keep up.
Socially, Avalon knows that he has missed out on a lot. He's just too shy to try and make any friends, afraid of what eh would tell them, afraid to let anyone too close for fear that they will hate him if they find out he's an alien. Avalon has found a group to belong to now, with Josh and Katima and Henry, but he still feels like he's on the outside looking in when on his own at class.
Just about this point in his through process, Avalon can't take it anymore. With a sniffle he climbs up out of bed and takes the few steps across the room it takes for him to reach Josh, and with little preamble, slides in next to the other boy. All Avalon really wants is to be close to someone. Thank goodness for Josh.
Tags: avalon, henry jordan, josh casey
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