From Across The Hall – 27

“I took a couple of years out to travel before I went back to studying, in case you were wondering,” Sam says then and tells him how old he is. Okay, so perhaps amongst other things, Ruben has been trying to work out his age.

“Where did you go?”

Sam starts listing all these exotic places, and Ruben starts to think that despite Sam being three years younger than he is, he’s seen far more of this world than he has. A slight swell of self-doubt sits hard on his stomach but he smiles through i...