@coldhcart said : " sorry; this might sting a little... " for Eddie
send in " sorry; this might sting a little... " for the sender to be cleaning a wound on the receiver's face, resulting in them being almost intimately close, making eye contact either knowingly or without meaning to.
He’d been hiding out at Reefer Rick’s since it happened. Quite honestly, not a whole lot of thought had gone into it, just that he couldn’t stay in that trailer with what he just witnessed... And he had to go somewhere he wouldn’t be found. But the whole time that he’d been hiding out here, all that had been playing behind closed eyes was what happened to poor Chrissy. He couldn’t make sense of any of it, and he wished it had just been an unfortunate situation where he’d dropped something a little too hard and had been hallucinating... -- That wasn’t the case, it had been TOO REAL. Now, he was so caught between his own guilt for just leaving her there, for RUNNING like a coward, and the trauma of seeing what he had, that he hadn’t even paid that much mind to the wound on his face. Something he likely got when he tripped over on his way into Reefer Rick’s.
Dustin had shown up, accompanied his friends and his cousin, Becca, and they’d managed to somewhat calm the rather ON EDGE Eddie, tell him that they believed him, and explained that they’d been through stuff like this before. Which, honestly, blew his fucking mind. But once the other’s had left, to go get him some supplies and try to figure things out, Becca had insisted on staying, and had also insisted on cleaning up the wound on his face.
Becca staying WAS comforting, he had to admit. Aside from Dustin, she was the one he knew best, had spent the most time with, though, he couldn’t help the wash of nerves that ran through him at how close she was to him right now, and how her eyes kept seeming to meet with his. It was different when you were high, as opposed to being sober. “ Yeah... No shit. “ He murmured, one leg bouncing absently out of anxiety, and for a brief moment, he dropped his gaze from her’s, but soon found it returning again. “ Sorry... I’m just... “