More Happy Than Not

Aaron has been working extra shifts at the grocery store to make up for his mother missing work due to illness. Because of this, he hasn’t seen Thomas since the day of the rally. He and Baby Freddy watch Brendan roll joints and listen as he explains his plan to skim some weed for himself by prerolling it. Aaron brings up Kenneth, and Brendan reveals that Kenneth was shot by a jealous boyfriend who’d mistaken him for Kyle. The other boys seem upset, and Aaron wishes he hadn’t brought up the twins.

Aaron suggests that he and Thomas have a Reverse Trade Date (without calling it a date) in which Thomas will show Aaron something important to him and vice versa. Aaron takes Thomas to the comic book shop. While there, he mentions that he’s writing his own comic book, and Thomas pushes to see it. Aaron thinks about the last thing he wrote: a scenario in which the hero has to choose between saving his girlfriend or his best friend from being eaten by a dragon. He now thinks that he would sacrifice himself to the dragon before making that decision.

While at the shop, Aaron spots a friend from school, Collin, who recently got his girlfriend pregnant.