we keep trying (to talk about us)

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"This-" Jared points between them, still looking through his bag, "we are not doing this. Please, Evan. We're catching up, like old high school friends, you know, on sitcoms. Where do you live? Are you still fucking that girl? Daaaamn, you have the wrong taste in grocery stores."

"Jared," Evan's saying, "Jared!"

"It's kind of funny, because we're picking up again, but we're also starting over," Jared's saying, still in this weird, false-earnest, mocking-a-sitcom voice.

"We weren't even friends in high school."

Jared and Evan run into each other after seven years of silence since the Connor Incident. They become... *checks notes* friends? They become friends.