When I first met him, I hid myself in a stairwell and stared until he spotted me.
He was a new transplant from a town of less than 100somewhere in Quebec, I think.He had gotten a job as a horse handler for a circus act that was in town.
We decided to move into a shared room at the hostel to save money
A few months later the circus was moving to Calgary,he decided to go with them.
I pretended nothing was happening all the way to the end.I walked him to the bus stop and gave him a final kiss goodbye.
I moved to a city that had Cherry Coke Zero in every corner storeand I had enough money to buy it by the case.I quickly lost my taste for it.