beautiful trauma
Coming home was the absolute last thing that Simba wanted to do, but he knew after the three day mark that one of the others was probably mildly concerned as to whether he was alive or not. To say that he was looking forward to this conversation sounded like a bad joke, but after exhausting every last place that he could stay with friends and, well — others, he had run out of couches to crash on and home was the only place left. Despite the fact that it felt like he was tucking his tail and crawling back, Simba wasn’t dare going to beg for forgiveness. He didn’t care how mad Jay was at him for the fight they’d had the other day, and it wasn’t like Remi was acknowledging him for some stupid thing he’d done, not that he knew what that was. The only thing he could do at this point was get in and get out as soon as he could, preferably without anyone seeing him.
The second he walked in the door, he knew that wasn’t going to happen. He could see Remi at the kitchen table the second he walked into the house and based on the shuffling towards the back it only made sense that Jay was around. Simba let out a low grumble of frustration but quickly decided that he had to commit now that he’d walked in the door. He pushed the door shut behind him, slamming it just a little bit louder than he’d intended, and walked into the kitchen without a word, his back to Remi as he prepared himself a sandwich. If Remi wasn’t talking to him, then Simba wouldn’t talk to him either, and if that asshole fae even thought about coming around, Simba would make sure that he wouldn’t acknowledge him either. He was done trying to be nice, not that he’d been trying much in the first place. They wanted to play the silence game, he would just return it tenfold.
Simba threw the knife he’d used into the sink and roughly tugged the chair out from under the table, dropping himself into the seat and intentionally turning himself as far away from Remi as he could while he shoved bites of the sandwich into his mouth. Screw them, he thought to himself. Don’t need friends like these anyway. He knew it was a lie, but the anger was still fresh in his veins, and despite his desire to want to just curl into Jay’s side and whine to him about how much he hated Remi’s new boyfriend, Jay was dead to him — for now, at least.












