i'm tired of being the one who holds it all together.
* YOU ONLY HAVE YOURSELF & YOUR BROTHER. that much you know. although your mother and father are not unkind, you know best how UNSTABLE everything actually is. you can hardly amount to anything ——— you stay out of trouble's way and keep quiet, lay your head low in hopes that everything will resolve itself. you know that is not the case. but what can you do ? you are smaller. younger. no matter how much you attempt to pick at SCRAPS, your efforts are in vain. then, this pain will simply TRANSFER itself to someone older. someone with a bigger heart. someone like asriel. the lump that builds inside of your throat is bitter. it tastes like bile, like your stomach is trying to get you out of a stressful situation before it can harm you. yet you cannot look away from his face, cannot part from him and LEAVE him to experience this sadness alone.
he only has YOU. while everyone departed, you understand that you two only have each other. reuniting is bittersweet. a drug that makes your head spin, you laugh over dinner and spend time catching up but after a while, it turns harrowing. the TIGHTNESS in your chest intensifies. you steel your resolve, rubbing the emptiness in your chest for comfort. at least you know that it is only you and him.
" i'm sorry. " the words escape you before you even get the chance to PROCESS what it is that you had just spoken. then, you realize that you are quaking. filled to the brim with a deep DESIRE to help him in all of the ways that you can but coming at a loss. is there anything that you could even say to alleviate him of his pain ? a tragic tale between two siblings experiencing everything and NOTHING all at once.
you were never one for sentimental embraces, the action far too EMOTIONAL for your tastes yet you reach out to him. like you want to comfort him as much as he has comforted you. like you would do everything just to TAKE it all away. and you know he cannot stay for long, you wouldn't wish for him to do so anyway. this agony is far too much & this selfishness would thwart him from truly soaring. but for now, your weary hearts beat together as one. just for this moment, you long for a MIRACLE that will take away all of this ache.
" we'll get through this. " a promise that you intend to keep no matter what.














