Eisen should have been feeling good about this, but yeah, there was still residual tension between he and Rory. The text conversation hadn’t allowed them much time to sm opportunity to smooth things over, and while Rory may have considered that okay, Eisen didn’t. He was still hurt, in ways that he probably wouldn’t be able to properly express to his friend, and though he was forcing himself to move past it for the sake of preserving their friendship, there were still a million questions on his mind.
Really, he should have been okay. He had Lexie, who he’d wanted for ages, Ed didn’t hate him, per se anyway, and Rory had somehow managed to forgive him for what he’d done, but something…something in his gut, still didn’t feel right. Maybe it was because there was so much that had gone unsaid; so much that he hadn’t tried to say, for fear of permanently damaging his friendship with Rory. He knew that there were two sides to every story, and that Rory had to stick with his brother. He wouldn’t have expected any less. But he couldn’t help that he still felt a little bit burned by it all.
The knock on his door alarmed him more than anything else would have. Rory knew that he could just let himself into Eisen’s apartment, regardless of what had happened between them. Maybe that was a sign that things were more dire than he’d initially thought. He cast that thought away as he opened the door, and laughed softly when Rory use a comment on his being up and dressed before noon as a greeting. “Hey, I told you I would be, didn’t I?”