Jouska: A hypothetical conversation that you compulsively play out in your head.
Clouds behind his eyes and rain clouds above his heads, Ophelia watched Erikson sat within the perimeter of the ‘popular’ kids lunch table, surrounded by meat head and girls who loved them. She had heard that the group was fearful of his families power within the school and treated him like a prince, a prince of darkness.
Marching over, Ophelia set her mound of books down and glared at the crowd as their eyes feasted on the sight of the ‘milf’s daughter’ approaching. The lion walking to the lions on her own accord and yet her eyes locked on the wolf inside the pride and knew he didn’t belong, they didn’t belong.
“You’re not safe.”
“You’re not happy.”
“You must be an idiot, to come here unprotected.”
“I’m a genius because you will protect me.”
“And why would I do that?”
“Because you need me.”
A break in the air, tightening around their throats chocking out his next words carefully.
“I need a lot of things.”
“The first being, a friend…a real one.”
Extending her hand, trying to save the one drowning in his own sorrows.
Blinking, she had her hand out and was still far from the boy as she realized all of her bravery had failed and was stuck still finding words to say but not knowing how to tell him.
That she was dark and twisty too.


















