Huh...? Why would I not go back with you? We've gotta stick together, don't we? [He looks a little unsettled by the question, because — okay, he knows he'd been ready to walk away, to go to college with Andy and start that new chapter, even if his friends weren't with him... But even still....] I'd rather get going out of Scarytown as soon as everyone else can, considering the stuff I've seen so far.

... Dreams don't last forever, right?

[He tucks his thumb in his belt, quieting.]

He did. When I'd been with her for that short time, it'd been the happiest I'd been in a while. I think you guys probably felt the same way, when Andy took us all out of that box. [The last time Andy'd ever see him, really. He couldn't imagine any reason he'd come back to visit — it's not like they're relatives who've parted ways. It's been hard to think about, and being frozen in time here hasn't made the pangs of loss any worse.] Better than being in some attic, right?