No she didn't. She just stopped clutching her pearls so tightly. Simon had gone home and just texted Peter for awhile after that, until Peter's parents had gone home and the kid himself went back to his tiny apartment. He had no idea that JC had moved into his territory by that point. Simon had been planning on getting himself invited over and sampling the goods he had saved but JC brought Peter into the fold before that could happen.

Simon had been surprised. He'd been more surprised when Peter stuck around and made friends with James and John and then moved into the tiny room they had open in their house.

"Are you seriously coming with us? I mean, you'll still have a year left at college." It wouldn't be the same without Peter. Simon had such perfect memories of him laughing or praying or walking with JC to a booth in a coffee shop that was decidedly less corporate than this one.