"I would have liked being a frog," said the Prince. "There are all sorts of rules and regulations with dealing about how to turn back into a human. I just can't deal with this now."
"Mr. Garwin, where do you think you're going?" Severus crossed his arms and gave his Slytherin his mildest glare. The blond boy was sneaking out of the dorms. Again.
College should have been easy. After all, they were all going to the same one. But they were all majoring in something different, their schedules crazy as hell, so they weren't with each other as much as they had been for the first eighteen years of their lives.
Scott asks him sometimes, when it's late and they're laying in bed and Benny can't sleep and he quietly confesses what this guy said today or what that guy laughed about and how it hurt. Scott asks how he can stand it.
There were times when it hit him just how close he had been to losing Aaron, and it was those times where he couldn't speak, just hold on tight and touch everything.