Sugar, We're Goin' Down
by Angela
It only happened once – a drunken fiasco they'd both promised to forget. But Alex kept the memory like a treasure: sometimes taking it out, soaking it in, then carefully storing it back where it would stay safe. He wondered why they'd done it. And why not again?
Eiji. At first Alex resented him for being helpless and naive. When he saw how things really were there were a million other reasons, all of them centered on the fact that he'd trade everything to be in the kid's shoes – those shoes that fell to the floor each night next to Ash's.