#bad behavior o'clock persists..

Nobody’s using you, baby she had said. And maybe she thought she could mean it at the time — but Stevie is a drug user, and Spirit is a people user, and these are things that will always get in the way of just about anything else. 

Andrew wouldn’t let her do this. Droopy and drunk and rambling — he would tell her to say what’s really on her mind or just go to sleep, start fresh tomorrow. He wouldn’t let her sit in his lap, play with his hair. She rests her head on the curve of his shoulder, lets herself feel the warmth. Lets herself pretend. 

Even when she looks up at him, she is disoriented enough to keep pretending. 

And so she kisses him — perhaps missing his mouth on purpose to gauge his reaction, perhaps having awful aim. She kisses the left side of his lips once. Twice.