"Not only did this bowl of soup spill a lot, it got cold long ago, so make a new one." Leon unscrewed the door handle to the study, Skyler following close behind him.
When he passed by the study, there was no movement in the study, the two men looked at each other, Leon's heart suddenly had a feeling, he screamed a bad, almost rushed to break through the door, or Skyler before he rushed to reach arm to stop him.
Leon suppressed the idea of rushing over and slightly pushed the door open a crack, and when he didn't see Brayden's shadow in the crack, he pushed the door open with a 'bang', and Brayden was really not in the house anymore.
He was still dumbfounded in the doorway, and Skyler got in through his hands instead, and she caught a glimpse of the letter Brayden had left on the table.
She gestured with her eyes for Leon to come over and read it, and her hands held the sides of the paper as her nice voice read the letter up.
"Sorry, I'm leaving, don't come back to me, thanks, bye."
Skyler was dumbfounded for a few seconds before she immediately turned around and tried to go out and stop him. Just as she turned around, Leon grabbed her wrist so tightly that it almost hurt her slender wrist.
In what must have been Leon's gentlest tone in days, and the most helpless in days, he said, "Skyler, don't go. He doesn't want to be seen by us, doesn't want to be found by us."
Skyler choked up and asked, "So let Brayden be out there alone, friendless and unwilling to go see his family."
Leon's eyes were a little moist, he forced himself not to drop tears in front of her, pretending to be calm: "Let's leave him alone out there to think about these things, until when he misses us and wants to come back, we'll go back to him."
Brayden is not completely broken, some memories he still vaguely remember, for example, he was drunk more than once to get rid of Leon and Skyler's support, causing them both to change the way to help him over and over again in the street at night, by passers-by a lot of blank stares, he felt ashamed, although it is true that there was little consciousness, but when he woke up, fragmented things in his mind echoed When he woke up, he felt sorry, so he wrote the three words 'sorry' at the beginning of the letter he left.
As for that last 'thank you', it was a thanksgiving that they both ran a lot of miles to make a special trip to this bar to bring him home and tell him that even though he was out of love, he still had a group of friends who cared about him by his side.
"Knock, knock, knock--" A knock at the door pulled Skyler out of her own mind games, and she pulled her hand out of Leon's and stepped quickly forward to try to open the door.
Maybe Brayden figured it out, he's no longer deep in his own tangles and struggles, maybe he wants to come back and talk to someone too.
Thinking about it, her face eased up a lot, but her gloomy expression froze the moment she opened the door and saw the visitor.
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