From Across The Hall – 21

“You draw?”

There is excitement in Sam’s voice as he brings Ruben’s lunch to the table, having waved away his offer to wait by the counter.

“A little,” Ruben replies, glad that he’d settled on the tablet, and after hesitating spins the tablet around for Sam to look.

“Wow. That’s beautiful,” Sam says, resting on his palms against the table. Ruben watches the muscle flex up his forearm and tries hard to look away.

“Thank you.”

“Do you have other stuff?”

Ruben nods, thumbing throu...