Kapitel 38: Chapter 38

Except he couldn’t help wondering. Was it drugs? If it was, was he off them now? Weed didn’t count, not for most people, but what if he still did other drugs too? Or what if it wasn’t drugs at all? What if it was something violent? Wyatt didn’t feel scared around Izzy, but what if he should have?

He noticed, part way through the movie, that Izzy was tapping the fingers of his free hand against his knee.

“You okay?” he asked, nodding at his fingers.

Izzy looked almost surprised to find he was doing it. He splayed his hand out and then curled his fingers into a loose fist. “Yeah, I just get a little jittery sometimes, you know?”

“Jittery?” Wyatt asked.

“Yeah,” Izzy said, his forehead creasing as his eyebrows tugged together. “It’s hard to explain.”

Wyatt snorted. “Izzy, I’m on so much Ativan right now!”

Izzy looked surprised again “You are?”