“That’s why you were so tired? You stayed up all night? Jeez, I wish you’d told me, I could have gotten them back.”
Ben shrugged, “Yeah, well, then everyone would have found out. I didn’t know all this would happen…”
“Yeah, okay,” Mike didn’t want to distract Ben from the story he was telling, “So anyway, you stayed up Wednesday night? And then you went for a nap, right?”
Ben nodded, “Yeah, I set my alarm for an hour, but I guess I slept through it or someone switched it off or something, and so I w, I, I guess I…” Ben couldn’t say those three words. Couldn’t admit it to his friend, even though he knew Mike both knew and accepted it.
