Five months ago, your relationship with Simon was severed so deeply that neither of you could reach across the gap to mend it, and so you left it broken. You thought the worst at first when you saw his name on your phone screen at 3 o'clock in the morning. You sighed in relief, because it wasn't that at all, but it was him calling because he needed your help. The m next evening, he stood on your doorstep in the freezing November rain, too proud to knock on the door.