"I do hate you," Adam said, clinging tight to him as a few tears fall, the tears he'd kept in for years. "I hate you for leaving me. I hate you for thinking I could live without you. I hate you so much, you stupid jerk."

He held on tight, nails digging into Ronan's shoulders as he clung. "I've been in love with you for as long as I can remember. God damn it, Ronan, I lost them too. Your parents were kinder to me than my own ever have been, and then you were gone days later. Of course I hate you."