"Yeah. Wait. Something like friends? Like Patrick and me where he said it'd take time and if it happened it happened?" Or words to that effect, the best Chris could remember. "Da did say he hadn't heard from him in years, but he'd been nice in school." Hard to imagine, he thought, but possible.
"Yeah, Patrick Pucey. Met him at Eros and we've danced and stuff. He's an okay bloke" Chris didn't think Patrick would have kittens like Marcus about someone saying he was nice.
"Come to think of it, I think I saw that Cormac bloke dancing at the party, not with Patrick though." But they probably knew each other, it seemed like Patrick knew everyone.
"Wait a tic, how do you know who Patrick is?" Oh please, God, he prayed they hadn't...cause that would be too weird.