Who: Ian Gallagher and Isak Valtersen What: Catching up When: Saturday evening Where: Isak's apartment Warnings: Talking about mental illness, sex, prostitution, drug use, other illegal stuff but it's all just talk, nothing's actually happening. Status: Closed, ongoing.
It felt weird being back in Madison Valley after so long. Sure, it had only been a week here, but it had been almost two years for him at home, and an extremely eventful two years at that. He'd had so many experiences that had affected him profoundly, and yet here it was like none of it had happened. It was going to take some getting used to and some time to sort through who he was now, and who he wanted to be now that he was back.
Talking to Isak, telling him about some of those experiences, would help him sort through it. No one here really understood him better. He understood being gay, having a crazy mother, and even kind of 'got it' when it came to bipolar disorder since his boyfriend back home had it too. And besides all that he was just a good friend and fun to hang out with. Ian didn't really have close friends back home anymore, outside of his immediate family. He'd burned too many bridges. So having Isak and his other friends was one thing that was good about being back in Madison Valley.
Luckily his bike was still here. After saying a warm hello to everyone at the farmhouse and hanging out there for a couple hours, Ian rode his bike back into town to Isak's apartment and knocked on the door.