A fun chapter highlighting so many hidden feelings. Lyn is busy hiding his feelings but also:
1. Claiming to fix the neighbour's roof, and
2. The fact that he can't swim.
Meanwhile, Alexander is also hiding his feeling's for Lyn behind a facade of disdain.
And all the while, Brad is secretly setting his two friends at loggerheads, enjoying the outcome of the rivalry between them.
On the surface it all looks normal, but it is unsustainable and we see it playing out finally, after many years apart, at the wedding.
How it will end remains a mystery, as does so much that the inimitable @Laura S. Fox sets up.