#heritagedoll

“  i  don’t  think  this  is  a  good  idea.  ”

“ don’t give me that look. ”

“ i really don’t have the mental capacity for you right now. ”

“ he got nothing better to do than follow you around ? ”

the party sprawls across the hawthorne shoreline in a haze of firelight and nostalgia while he stands apart from most of it, as he always does. years ago, he was returned a young man more comfortable cataloging ghosts than joining the living. yet his attention keeps finding her. and he notices it the way he notices everything that matters too late. the way her pupils look when she turns toward a string light, how she disappears for twenty minutes and comes back just slightly different, familiar signs. dread settles heavily beneath his ribs as he follows her down the darker stretch of beach. “ you using again ? ”

“ some  of  us  don’t  get  to  disappear  whenever  life  gets  difficult. ” 

"it's always me when things don't work out with him ."

"is that any way to greet an old friend ?" / @heritagedoll