📞 • ROSE
JAMES: [ it has came down to a point where he has lost track of how long it's been since he left new york in favor of going back home and that should be an indicator that he's doing fine - he should be having a great time, should be forgetting. but the reality happens to be different and instead, it's as though what he tried to escape when he left the city that never sleeps, followed him all the way down to anaheim. right now? he's laying upside down on the couch, amber hues trained on neelam who seems far too entertained with his iphone to bother paying him any mind. ] "nee, baby, what'cha doing?" [ there's a pause, accompanied by the giggles of his little cousin and the barely coherent 'nothing' she utters. of course, that's all it takes for james to move from the sofa and, with ease, retrieve his phone. when he does? the color drains from his face, bambi-like eyes widening even further and for a moment, he thinks he forgot how to properly breathe. ]
