Will had been fully prepared to do the usual bloke thing of skirting right around the elephant in the room as though they both hadn't seen each other clap eyes on it, because fishing around for small talk like they were nothing more than a pair of mutual acquaintances was excruciating, but it beat traipsing into the potential minefield of so, I'm dating your ex.
And then Patrick instantly went and blew small talk out of the water.
"Oh. Um." Will blinked a few times, because what could he say to that? "Yeah, she said she was gonna."