#c;teddy

it was one of those nights where teddy thought it would be a tremendous idea to get up and ho from his apartment. he thought aimlessly wandering through the streets would help clear his mind of drowning thoughts but he ended just lost in the middle of somewhere and nowhere. he was just lucky a kind stranger lent him their phone so he could call someone. “i don’t know where i am. can you come get me?”

DUSTY: I, uh... I just wanted to talk to you. I miss our apartment and stuff.

          “so do you think that calling someone my love is the equivalent to saying i love you?” teddy asked the other, his focused on their reaction and whatever thoughts they had about the subject. he wasn’t one to talk about affection, he tend to stray far from it. though there are days where he wondered what love was like and how he hadn’t felt it in a long time. 

“hey, i’m sorry i didn’t show up on your doorstep with flowers and profess my undying love for you, but guess what, that’s not real life. you need to grow up.” teddy sighed as he drove to get to their dinner reservation. he was usually polite and level headed but today had been stressful and two have been fighting with one another nonstop for the whole week. it seemed like he was always doing something wrong and never really pleasing the other.

           “You’re not you.” Teddy couldn’t recognize the person the other had become. They used to be two peas in a pod but now the other felt like a stranger. “I miss the old you.”

Teddy was sitting in his living room, reading up on transcripts that his sister asked him to take a look at until he heard the television of his next-door neighbor’s turn on to Jeopardy. It’s been fun hearing the questions and yelling out the answers, knowing well enough that it would probably piss off his neighbor. So as the questions came up, the young man started answering all of it until it came to one. It was the best friend of Jo March from Little Women who had been hopeless in love with her, it took Teddy a moment to think of the answer until he realized it was his name after all. “Who is Theodore Lawrence!” A triumphant smirk on his face as he finally got the answer but probably looked insane from yelling it out in his empty apartment, noting that he should probably move to a better place soon.

As he felt the other pull away from the passionate kiss they shared, the young man let out an audible groan and had already missed the way they taste on his tongue. “You have no idea how much I missed that.” He mumbled as he kept his eyes clothes to savor the sensation, Teddy had been working long hours throughout the week as projects after projects were being placed on his table by his older sister for him to work on. He enjoyed the grind of being a book editor but he had neglected the other completely hence why he had dedicated the whole day to be with just them.