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    If by Chance We Meet
    If by Chance We Meet
    If by Chance We Meet
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    If by Chance We Meet

    By Kyler Doss

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    This is the story of finding a boyfriend in your mind but wishing that you could find one for real. Patrick, 19, goes to classes and has a job - the problem is that he is so lonely it has pounded his feelings out to numb. One of his winter days locates him in a sandwich shop near the canal, where he notices a boy that is going to change everything for him - Patrick is 100% sure of it.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKyler Doss
    Release dateMay 8, 2022
    ISBN9781938181085
    If by Chance We Meet
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    Kyler Doss

    Kyler Doss has got a pocketful of chocolate milk receipts from the bus depots he has gone through. His note on the reverse side of one of the receipts: Arizona rules. A graduate of the University of Arizona, Kyler writes fiction that is set in a lot of places - the coming-of-age stories boys in love would recognize on any map you can google or unfold.

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      If by Chance We Meet - Kyler Doss

      1

      The place

      THE PLACE is a restaurant near the canal. The boy's name is Sebastian.

      The only way I know his name is because he's wearing a tag on his shirt. Maybe he works here and he's taking a break. Maybe he works someplace else and he forgot to take off his tag.

      I like him.

      He's about my age, 19. My own name is Patrick.

      I'm alone at my table, Sebastian is alone at his.

      I just have to figure out how I can walk over there.

      I could say, Do you mind if I sit with you?

      That doesn't sound right. He could say, You've got your own table, don't you?

      And then I'd have to say, Yes, but I wanted to sit with you.

      In other words, I am forced to tell the truth and look like a fool all at once.

      Maybe it's better to randomly take a chair at his table and say hello, like you didn't just break some social custom. It could get tense, though, if he doesn't know what you're doing. You know that he would be thinking about it and it's not going to work in your favor.

      What if I called over to his table instead. Something like, You don't have to sit alone. Come on over.

      I think that line is really reserved for the confident. If you're confident, any line will work. You don't even have to think about it. You just come up with a few words off the top of your head.

      It's always about a line, isn't it? You have to have one.

      If I just walk over there and sit down with him, no greeting, he wouldn't know what to think. He might not think anything at all. And eventually he would leave without even saying goodbye.

      We are right back where we started from. You need to say something. If it's stupid, that's about the end of your chances.

      There is no one else like Sebastian and there never will be. This is it. This is everything.

      The other thing you can do is finish your meal and leave. As bad as you want him, it just isn't going to be that way. When you walk out, you can get on with your life without Sebastian.

      Does your life have to mean anything? You have a pretty good idea of what it would mean with him in it. It would mean that you would be happy.

      If one of you walks out of here now, you won't see him again. Or if you do see him, it's only pure luck and nothing you can count on.

      The name on his white shirt doesn't look like it has anything to do with this sandwich shop. Who knows why he's wearing it but if you think it means you can find him whenever you want, you are probably only dreaming. Where would you look?

      And what would you say at those nearby restaurants? Does anyone named Sebastian work here?

      They would want to know why you want to know. Plus they would look at you suspiciously. And when you're on the spot, you're trying to make up casual reasons why you want to find him when there is nothing casual about it.

      It's serious. It's as serious as it gets.

      I come up with a plan to ask him if I can borrow the pepper on his table. But I might have to get rid of the one on my table first. Or I could say it's empty, or that it doesn't work even though it's got pepper in it.

      Why can't I lie and get away with it? Why doesn't it start a real conversation, the first one in our relationship?

      I hope he doesn't tell me that he can take a look at it. When he's done, he will say it works just fine.

      I will say thank you and I won't be able to think of anything else. Thank you, Sebastian. By the way, I would like to be friends with you.

      That sounds awful. He would find a way to be polite but get away quick. I'm sure he would be horrified. I would feel humiliated knowing that he finds me to be weird and difficult.

      The rule is that you can't talk to somebody unless you have business with them. My business with him is the pepper shaker. The only problem is that once you have conducted your business, you aren't allowed to do

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