#screamkiing

 setting the shoe box on the table he doesn’t let go of it. he’s not sure if he wants to hand it over just yet. still all that boiling excitement, like a kid in the candy store. “my mom dates a lot of assholes lucky for me one of them had this.” he says, now prepared for the big reveal. he pops the lid off. his heart’s beating pretty quick now, his hands have a small shake to them, his head is spinning. like when he had first picked it up, felt the weight. his mind wild with a million ideas. “go ahead and pick it up. it’s loaded.” 

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      ------HE NEEDED A break away from reality ( his current reality, at least ), though gideon wasn’t so foolish to believe he was ready to be thrown back into the world of work just yet. instead he wanted mindless banter, laughter, something to ease the ache of how SERIOUS the world had felt for the past however many days. reed was good at that. reed had an easy sort of way of eking in humor where it might not have belonged otherwise - made effortless by his natural disposition. gideon would be entirely thankful of that, really. the text had been fired off earlier confirming a meeting at the little café he had shared with reed one afternoon not long before, and it was there that he waited for his companion to show.

      perhaps he was desperate for that lighthearted something. but at his perch, at the corner table, he watched the denizens of the city come and go. where once he felt like he could blend easily now it seemed as if there were always a pair of eyes on him. RIDICULOUS, FOR NOBODY IN NEW YORK CITY GAVE A SHIT ABOUT ANYONE ELSE - and still it was. hazel eyes shifted from one table to the next, considering the people and the snippets of conversation he could glean before he turned his attention to the door and the familiar face coming through it. instantly he relaxed, felt the tension ooze away from his neck and back, and he shifted to wave for reed’s attention. “ excuse me, coach? ”

“ yeah, well------life’s full of surprises. goes t’show y’what happens when y’stop payin’ attention. get all wrapped up in your own little world and blah, blah, blah. ” he shoved his hands down into his pockets and licked his lips, circling around. then he paused------lifted both his eyebrows and glanced across at the other boy almost mildly, shrugging his shoulders and jerking his hands back out and turning up his palms.

a really long, but categorized, ask meme

I MISSED THIS OMG