dialogue prompts from little rot by akwaeke emezi.
i don't have energy for this. not again.
this doesn't feel like love anymore.
love isn't enough, and you know it.
is it alright if i come and stay with you, just for a little bit?
my house is your house. you don't even have to ask.
you act like i've asked you to kill your own mother.
i prayed for a love that would never leave me lonely.
i'm glad you stayed. i was already missing you.
running away never fixes anything.
don't start repressing your feelings. these emotions are necessary. they're part of healing.
we can't go back to that club for a while.
please don't ask me to kill my aesthetic in the name of practicality.
it's so easy to scandalize you.
if everything is broken, then something must be broken open.
you're with me. you'll be safe.
i would have known. i would have noticed something.
this is what you do in a godless space.
let me know if you need to run off.
do you want to help me feel better?
don't start something you can't finish.
don't you wish you'd never come back, sometimes?
you think you'll never be a part of things you hate.
just make sure it's a door you want to open.
i didn't bend, even when it meant losing you. i had to stand for something.
what kind of person do you think i am?
i started from the gutter. there was nowhere left for me to sink to.
you don't want a real person. you want someone pretending to be a real person.
you know pieces of me that no one else does.
don't lie to me. something is wrong.
what a convincing liar you are.
you don't know what you're asking for.
i remember when we all used to go to sunday school together.
you don't lie. you can't even swear properly.
this isn't me. this isn't who i want to be.
it's not your job to save anyone other than yourself.
the whole place feels wrong without you.
i'll make some food. will you eat?
it's impossible to forget anything about you.
it took me forever to stop thinking about you.
people don't always know how to look at me.
one day i'll stop running and live.
maybe i'm just not in the mood to play that character today.
who ever bothered to try to protect us?
you and your useless soft heart.
you know what it's like here. you have to be ready.
your voice is exactly like i remember it.
one of us has to be cautious.
dailybridgerton
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