When he looks at Nick, merrily puttering away in his kitchen, he has no idea whether Nick views what they’re doing as fooling around or as a prelude to something else. Because he can feel it, that possibility of something else—there might not be a wedding or a house in Connecticut, there might not be children and a Labrador and the settled vision of life he’s always longed for, but Andy knows in his heart that he could hold on tight to Nick and keep doing what they’re doing and have that be it.
