>>17612406The conversation briefly falls silent, then the boy decides to break the ice.
"I've never dealt with a friend moving before."
"Me either."
The silence returns. Something begs for you to say something, anything, anything at all to make the moment less depressing, but this is too new of a situation for you to handle. Not even your father leaving was this deep.
"Uhh," you hold up a hand to say something comforting, but the boy cuts you off at the last second. Accepting his friendless fate, he walks off and makes sure that you don't see his face at all in his departure.
"....I guess this is goodbye then." he somberly notes.
That's the last you ever see of him.
