It’s how I was raised. My grandma has said I love you maybe once to my mom, her dad (my grandpa) exxed her out when she find out she was having a baby with African American blood (me, my dad was mixed).
My mom doesn’t display any affection towards me, I have seen her make attempts lately, but for the most part, dry. No hugging, talking maybe once a month through text, it’s always irrelevant stuff. Stepdad too.
My dad showed me the most affection, but seeing him only a few times a year and then haven’t seen him now well over a decade kept my love from growing at a time when I needed it most.
My exes suffered from this reservation of speaking my love I have. Physical touch I’m all for, not talking ONLY sex either. I show my love through small gestures, holding and squeezing your hand, giving you unsolicited massages, wanting to sit with you and rest my head on your lap. It’s all I got 🤷🏼♂️
I’ve been trying to grow and show empathy since then.
Who needs a therapist? Not me. I just need the birds in backyard, fresh air, and some tea.
me & magdalena
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secluded in the canyon
lost within a turn of fate
“me & magdalena,” the monkees
>> The two of ‘em establish the somewhat rude habit of bailing during get-togethers without telling anyone. They stop answering their phones at any point before noon shortly after that. He’d call it a side effect of New Couple Syndrome (NCS), but it’s something they continue doing long after any reasonable person would call something “new” (and honestly, he’s not even sure you could say it was “new” when it was new, technically).
The only way he knows how to explain it is like this: Like driving through a darkened neighborhood at night and seeing light emanating from behind the curtains. The flashing of a television—an understanding that there are people in there and they are probably half-asleep on their couches. Hopefully they are not alone (and if they are, that they are not lonely). When Dean was still too small for the passenger seat of the Impala, he would stare out the window and be overcome with a fleeting sense of absolute certainty. It didn’t matter that he’d never meet them. Didn’t matter that he couldn’t knock on their doors and make sure. He just knew—especially on those dark, late night drives out of some other town—that they were safe and warm in there. The Impala was home, sure, but it wasn’t as if he had entirely forgotten what it had been like before. With the roof and the walls and the doors and the smells. That was home too.
Being with Cas is like being one of those imaginary, comfortable people tucked safe in their beds with their TVs on low. It’s like—like in the middle of a frigid, fucked-up-kinda-cold winter and you’re driving home late and you know how cold it is out there and there’s an unforgivably tender part of you that feels joy for those people who have something that you might never have. And sure, it’s bitter but it’s joyful too, and ya know, one day? That’s gonna be you.
It’s not as if he doesn’t enjoy being with everyone (’course not). Sittin’ quiet in the corner of this new bar in downtown Lebanon; with Cas perched on the arm of an oversized armchair—half-listening to whatever the fuck Claire is talking about. Doesn’t even wanna know what a “TikTok” is at this point, to be quite fucking frank about it.
It’s just that it’s so much easier to be sure when it’s staring him right in the freaking face. That everyone is here and they’re fine and maybe they don’t need him? At least not right now. It’s why he can grab Cas’ hand halfway through Quiz Night and head out the back door with minimal guilt. He even stopped making eye contact with Sam beforehand (eventually).
“Everyone gets it, ya know. You don’t need like... permission.”
It’s mid-February and Dean can feel it in all of his old, multiple-times-broken bones. There isn’t much he’d change about the Impala (she’s damn near perfect as is), but as he’s gotten older he has silently wished she’d heat up just a little bit faster. Especially in the Midwest in February. Maybe he should invest in one of those long, stupid coats that look like a sleeping bag.
“That’s one of the perks of getting older,” Jody laughed into her beer, “my desire to be comfortable has come to outweigh my need to look cool.”
“Man, I’m always cool,” he mumbles, the two of them watching Claire and Alex shiver out by the fire in their denim jackets and leggings and nothing else. “I’d look cool in a freakin’ poncho.”
“Sure thing, kiddo.”
“Shit,” he hisses, sliding behind the wheel. “Fucking freezing.”
“Mm,” Cas grunts in agreement, grasping both of Dean’s dry, cold hands between his own. "We’ll be home soon.”
“New rule,” he huffs, “when shit drops below 30, we stay in.”
“Deal.”
Cas plants a final, warm, breath-filled kiss to the top of his hands before letting him pull away to start the car, and he shivers goddamn again.
“We really should get you a scarf,” he suggests, eyeing Dean’s exposed neck.
If it was possible to pop his collar with an even greater air of defensiveness, he absolutely would have, but it’s pretty well and good stood up at this point and he knows when Cas knows that he knows.
“Yeah, yeah.”
The heat finally starts to rattle through the vents as they drive down a darkened suburban street a few minutes before midnight. He wonders briefly whether he’s got an internal alarm clock about Midnight at this point. Clock’s about to strike. Don’t wanna be caught with your pants down.
In the periphery of his vision he takes note of two things, one of which is not unusual but pleasant all the same. First thing being the way the shadows from the streetlights fall over Cas’ face—eerie and beautiful and familiar; the second being the glowing, almost-light of what looks to be a Christmas tree that someone’s left up way, way too long. Come on, people, it’s almost Valentine’s Day. He slows up at the four-way stop in front of the house, and it strikes him all at once. Like Midnight. The dark streets; the being too small for the passenger seat. Hell, if he lets himself he’d probably be able to smell John’s cologne or hear Sammy’s snuffling.
“Dean?”
Cas’ voice resonates in his chest; beneath his sternum somewhere like it always does, and there’s an awareness of his hand resting on top of Dean’s achey knee. That small, tender part of him? The part that he’d tried to be rid of only to have it grow and change and become even painfully more? The part that sits in big soft armchairs and surrounds itself with the voices of people he loves? That part is is absolutely ecstatic to find that all the other warring, disparate pieces inside himself have fought an incredibly long, hard battle in order to become one of those safe, warm people he used to make-up inside his head. Figments he had envied. People who keep their TVs on too late or their Christmas trees up way, way too long. February. Jesus.
“Yeah,” he chokes, rolling slowly through the stop sign towards the highway.
“Are you alright?”
“Yeah,” he says again, lighter, “Yeah, totally. Just cold.”
“We’ll be warm soon,” Cas replies with a gentle squeeze. “I’m exhausted.”
He’s not totally sure if Cas is ignorant of whatever just happened or if he’s giving him a pass, but he’s grateful either way. Sometimes you’re just too tired to talk about the heavy stuff (and besides, there’s always coffee in the morning). He is fully aware that his extraordinary lack of being willing to share has been something of a significant problem over the years. But that’s kind of the beauty of Cas, isn’t it? The Knowing Silence that has somehow gotten even more knowing over the years. Fucking blessing and a curse.
So, yeah, he’s sure they’ll return to this moment—not a doubt in his mind. He’s sure that he’ll reveal something that Castiel has always suspected. Something that has pained him for a stupid number of years—like a splinter that you can’t find. But sometimes there’s nothin’ for it but to give it up and get into bed. Especially once the all-consuming power of Midnight has come and gone and it’s too cold to turn your key in the ignition. No, sometimes you gotta crawl into bed (with the expensive memory foam topper) and sleep until the sun comes up. Maybe even a few more hours after that.
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