you're the piece i'm missing [☾] omegabychoice
The car isn't in the driveway, a sign his mom isn't home.
[He can still feel fear lodging his throat, claws marring across hers still beneath closing lids. A ghost that kisses his thoughts while the key turns.]
Wood creeks under his trudging weight, his bag dropping onto the floor as a mindless heap beside the closing door. Silence brings palms to rub against his eyes sockets, hoping to rid of the sharp talons of guilt and extrudes a sigh, shoulders slumping with fatigue. The sleep on the bus was only a few hours of restless irises flickering beneath lids he couldn't bring to open. He's pulled from his stupor when music reaches his ears, a thudding rhythm of beats that echo in the shadows of the house, limbs tightening in aware. It's from his room, he notes as stairs grunt with his movements and holds his breath, letting fingers turn the knob quietly before peeking through the widening gap.
He doesn't expect to see a erratic heap of limbs in the middle of his room, a blur of arms and legs and hair before his voice finally works in his throat, "—Percy?"