Handsome & Cool

     “ this is a favour to your mother. ”

     not that he expected anything in RETURN, of course. elsa was a nice enough woman, had made conversation that didn’t make alfendi want to slit his own throat after five minutes… which, given his track record, was something of an impressive feat. they’d shared enough lunch breaks together for her to feel comfortable leaving her son in his care. the inspector figured she must’ve been DESPERATE.

     “ i don’t doubt you can take care of yourself for a couple of hours, but this way, she gets some peace of mind. ” he didn’t look up from the dining room table, where numerous scraps of paper lay scattered in front of him, along with a number of pictures… none too pleasant. “ so, do me a favour in return, and cease the waggling of your tongue before i am tempted to cut it out. ”

// @worldsdeepestpit

‘well maybe, trevor, if you didn’t keep making all the good ones quit you wouldn’t be stuck with the idiot ones.’ his mother had a point. but let’s face it --- the boy was stuck with little to do and found fun where he could. which just so happened to be in the process of terrorising carers. with her last warning of ‘be nice - and please don’t make this one cry’ his mother was gone for the day. still, the man’s complete disregard for the job has trevor rolling his eyes in no time. 

     Nancy is more mad at the idea that he implicates she could ever be DISGUSTED by him. She looks him in the eye, head cocked, brows furrowed, and shakes her head as she speaks, “and I’d have climbed in bed with you until one or both of us fell asleep. I know that’s an oversimplification, but don’t you get it, Trev? By me agreeing to be your girlfriend, I accepted even the bad days, or weeks, or months. I accepted the reality that you might be in bed for a week and a half and then the next week, we’re out having a picnic. While I may not technically like one of those as much as the other, I’m still down for some time with you any time, any place.”

       Nancy is shocked to hear the words come out of his mouth. She looks at him with furrowed brows and crosses her arms. She doesn’t think she’s ever heard ‘sorry’ come out of his mouth for anything (luckily for him, he’s never had a need to say it to HER). She bites her lip and looks at him as he starts to explain. The young woman who came in here guns blazing was slowly slipping away as she heard his words, but she was CERTAINLY still there. “TRY ME, Trev! After two weeks of radio silence, I’d rather hear you sound like a PRICK than hear nothing at all.”

“d’you need like…HELP or something?” the world takes an uncomfortably long time to leave her lips. as though she is resistant to actually doing anything helpful at all. which she is. very. 

@worldsdeepestpit·

Only left the house twice a week? Evan could be a real homebody but at least he (in large part thanks to school and his mom’s relentlessness) found was to get out of the house for at least a little while most days. Even if only just to go for a walk or something, though there were some times he’d fail in this. He couldn’t imagine what not going out would be like, day after day. Yeah, you’d definitely need something to do. Boredom would creep in real fast. Besides, how stifling would that be, to never get outside?

“No, um, yeah, I can, I can imagine. And I guess that’s, do a lot of people really show up for that? To um go see the, the world’s biggest bovine? I mean I find things like the, the world’s oldest tree neat and all but I um don’t imagine you know um swarms to go see it.” Well then again its location was a secret. “And Evan. Sorry, it’s Evan.”

       trevor didn’t find it all that stifling, if only because the outside world was filled with things that wanted to kill him. germs, cold air, a light breeze. his mix of hypochondria and agoraphobia wasn’t the most FUN but it was only two more things onto the pile for him. he had his routine now. park on a tuesday, mall for a movie on a saturday. this was how things were, how they had been for years now, and if not going out could add an extra couple of days onto his life-span then that is what he’d do.