[Nate doesn't bother texting back, not because he doesn't care, but because he doesn't know what to say. Drake had loved Elena enough to marry her - what do you say to that kind of loss? To your older self?
[He's still contemplating this up a tree when to his surprise, someone else comes up the tree, and he looks down from his rather high branch (probably too high for Drake to safely join him, considering the added weight) to find...
tree
[He's still contemplating this up a tree when to his surprise, someone else comes up the tree, and he looks down from his rather high branch (probably too high for Drake to safely join him, considering the added weight) to find...
[Well, think of the devil.]
Hey.
[Awkward.]