@detouch
you’re just wishing this could happen anytime besides how but now is the time this is happening and it’s happening now and how’s the time it’s happening it’s happening now and now’s the—
the gasp you make presses your hands against your mouth in a tight, watery sob. you’d just slipped to the side of the guest house, and tried to be quiet. just think about it like having to hide from a murderer, you think. just think about it like you have to shut up. it’s not even too cold out.
hard gasps. those are rough. and your hands are numb. they’re completely without feeling. your fingertips. your brain’s so foggy. you’re going to have to apologize because this is weird, it’s weird, you know this is weird—
you think you hear the front door open and theo step outside. it hasn’t occurred to you that a freak out is even weirder when you’re having it practically sobbing and crouched against somebody’s house. but the fat, awful tears slip between your fingers and everything tastes like salt. you should’ve just gotten in your car and got... out. and it would’ve been weirdest (you would’ve barfed from all the guilt) but it would’ve been better than being caught.
being caught is the shittiest.









