That, and I've learnt the hard way how to just deal with shit.

It is strange. I mean, I'm knowing them better now. We spend a lot of time visiting them and they've just always been peachy as a couple. Like a pin-up marriage, or something. But they've got a lot beyond the exterior, I know. I keep trying to suggest what might be wrong to Pat, but he just keeps coming back to something going on in Lachlan's head. They've been best friends since they were 10. I guess it was like when you were shutting me out.