No one would want to hear all his stories. He didn’t have anyone to tell them to.
Seeing how small the world was had made him feel more connected to everyone in it, but it had also made Gabriel realize how profoundly alone he was.
His whole life had been building up to this moment. He’d worked every hour he’d been awake to get here since he was in high school.
And now he had no one to share his victory with. No one to be proud of him.
“There’s, uh… there’s no one down there for me,” Gabriel said after a few moments. “No one waiting.”
“Yeah there is,” Connor said. “There’s someone waiting for everyone. You just haven’t met them yet.”
The skeptic in Gabriel wanted to laugh at that, but in his heart, he wanted to believe. He wanted to think that there reallywassomeone out there for him, someone who he could share everything with, someone who’d understand him and want to spend the rest of their life with him, exactly as he was.
It just sounded too good to be true.
