They didn't come together in a frantic, 'I want you' kind of way.

It was much more gradual. The transition from acquaintances to friends to lovers was a slow process. They didn't meet and fall instantly in love. They were both quite surprised when it did happen.

Anyone who knew them then, and now, would disagree.

They'd say they could see it coming, knew from the first time those boys looked at each other.

Ephram likes to think that they were meant to end up this way.

He'd never been one for procrastination, but he thinks that maybe they had to stumble through all the pitfalls before they could see what they had in each other.

Maybe he'd needed that time when he was fifteen, and in love, and angry with the world. When he met a boy named Colin, who was just as lost as him, and found a friend where he'd least expected it.

Colin liked to think that he was supposed to end up this way. Reborn, a new spirit inside his body. And just maybe he was supposed to forget everything, to never remember, because it's what made him into the man he's become.