"I got it when he was still here. Kyle got here a month after I did, but he and I... It was complicated. And you - Michael - didn't show up for nearly a year after I got here. And maybe I remember more than you do now, but when I first got here, it was the day after Caulfield and the last thing I remember is sitting outside your trailer. Waiting and beginning to think you weren't coming." And he hadn't. And Alex had left and the next thing he knew, Michael was dating Maria.

"I fought it like hell for a long time, but I fell in love. And now he's been gone almost as long as I knew him."

Bass was another thing that Alex kept tucked away. Except it had come out with Barry at the beach. And now he was telling Michael - someone who didn't remember his time here - about such a touchy part of Alex's past.

And, judging by the look on Michael's face, he was going to have to go nearer to the worst of it. "When you showed up, it got complicated. Because I didn't think I could love more than one person at a time and Bass didn't want me to. So that was the status quo for a while. But you and I..." He sighed. "I've never been able to stop loving you. I never want to stop loving you."