@theindieflash || plotted starter (closed)
IT HAD TAKEN SOME PROCESSING. A lot of processing, actually.
Even though they were still friends on Facebook, it wasn’t as if Blaine checked into social media all that often. College and being newly-married had all but SWALLOWED him whole. Then Audrey had been born, and balancing being a good husband and good father meant little time for anything else. And ever since the divorce, Blaine really hadn’t wanted contact outside his small circle of family and close friends. He’d stepped back, even more than before, from anything that might disturb the protective BUBBLE he’d wrapped around himself and Audrey.
Then, out of nowhere, a text from Sebastian Smythe. A CONFESSION that had set Blaine’s carefully constructed little world on it’s head. He hadn’t known how to respond, so he hadn’t bothered. Tried to tuck the words away, even though they were still there every morning when he woke, and every night as he finally drifted off into a RESTLESS sleep. More texts followed, and though he still couldn’t process them either, still didn’t quite know how to respond, he kept them all, stared at them when things got quiet, and tried to figure out what he wanted to say in return.
It was too soon, obviously, to even contemplate jumping into another relationship. Besides, whatever might’ve existed UNSPOKEN between him and Sebastian in the past, they were different people now. They didn’t know one another any longer. Sebastian was in love with a MEMORY of some guy from high school—far less jaded, and hopefully, not as naive. And for all Blaine knew, Sebastian still harbored that horribly mean and careless behavior within him that had almost left Blaine blinded in one eye. Did he really WANT a person like that in his life again? In Audrey’s?
And yet, one afternoon, a little after a month of occasional texts, the last stating a simple I miss you, Blaine had found himself finally responding with a question: Can I see you? It wasn’t much. A re-connection with an old friend, if nothing else. He wasn’t yet ready to acknowledge what had been in the REST of the texts sent. That was too much.
So here he was, sitting in his favorite little coffee shop, Frisson Espresso in midtown, right foot tapping NERVOUSLY against the floor beneath the tiny table where he sat as he checked his watch, wondering if he had made the right decision.