↳ @handstained sent : ❝ we are not dirty. ❞ ( the first meme i send HAS to be siken )
❝ 𝗡𝗢𝗧, 𝗟𝗜𝗞𝗘, 𝗣𝗛𝗬𝗦𝗜𝗖𝗔𝗟𝗟𝗬, 𝗜 𝗚𝗨𝗘𝗦𝗦. ❞ truthfully, it went deeper than skin and embedded itself right into marrow. something felt wrong with him; dirty, like he said. maybe it had to do with the unending shitstorm his life turned into when he intertwined with nancy wheeler, or maybe it had more to do with his life leading up to that point. living a lie isn’t so bad as long as you stay within the lie but, once you step outside, you’re fucked.
steve didn’t know how to talk about any of that. honesty begets vulnerability, something he’d been told time and time again to avoid. no one ever mentioned he might need it one day, if only to do some spring cleaning within his psyche.
❝ and — i dunno — maybe you’re not dirty at all. I just figured — ❞ having dead parents musses things up? not that steve would know. he bit his tongue. ❝ i guess i just thought we had something in common. ❞










