#he just didn't want to be trapped in a caravan with his parents his four younger sister his older brother+ his girlfriend and their daughter

[listen-to-the-inner-walrus]

He came back at half past midnight, making it a near ten hour meal together where they "lost track of time".

Also during Christmas day, my brother briefly interrupted the day so he could call his mate and see how he was doing because said mate was by himself over Christmas (the rest of his family went to an Airbnb caravan in a Haven Centre).

My brother did also invite him to spend Christmas with us.

This is also the mate where when he had a girlfriend, they always wanted my brother round because they didn't talk as easily when he wasn't around. Plus, it was only at my brother's prompting that his mate decided to spend alone time with the girlfriend and do things like buying her flowers.

The two of them are living out a romantic comedy and I fear they don't even realise.

I'm like 90% certain my brother's living a "didn't know they were dating" AU with his best mate right now which is great and all and I support him, but it's very inconvenient when their three and a half hour meal has gone on for an extra three hours.