closed starter for Nathan @nathanhayes where: bonfire solstice bash based on the challenge stone prompt !
Not just honesty. Bitter honesty. Be honest about something you've been holding back. Fuck.
There was only one situation that applied to, unfortunately. The list of people she'd let down was more massive than the distance to the moon, but. This was the one that mattered. There wasn't enough sorrys in the world to explain or justify how badly she'd let not just them, but herself down in the way she'd handled things all those years ago.
Taking a breath, Charlie started to take a few steps towards him, before turning around and freezing, stretching her fingers through her hands at her side as if her nerve endings were on fire. Stupid, this was stupid. She didn't have to do this. She was about to march herself back to the entrance and just leave this whole event, but when she'd dug for her keys in her pocket, her thumb traced over her wallet. The wallet that still kept Wyatt's baby picture safely contained, right next to the picture of Ben. The existence of those little polaroids might've been redundant, since both images were irrevocably burned into her brain. She didn't need the reminder, but she held onto it, anyways.
Fuck.
Before she lost her nerve again, she pivoted once more, striding over to Nathan with the briskness of a brewing storm, honestly afraid she might throw up before even reaching him. But when she got there, the words managed to blurt out just as fast as her pace on the way over. "Can I talk to you?"
