Sparkle chewed his lip for a moment, and then shrugged his shoulders. God, just opening up and spilling his heart out on the floor was hard. Even with Atton, when it came to things like this.

"Raine visited that miserable old bitch friend of hers to try to talk her into maybe getting the neighbourhood to give us another chance," he settled on. That was big. Bigger than all of the losing his mind that Lewis had been doing. Sparkle had already made up his mind that Raine was the number one priority in this situation, and now he was clinging to that for dear life.

It terrified him a little.