i got a 36 on a geometry test last week and everything hurts so let's get started
SOTC: Trojans — Atlas Genius
• take off all the thoughts of what we've been •
April didn't dare let a word fall out of her mouth. She had already done too much. She threatened to burst, her mouth filled with bees like words stinging across her tongue and her vocal cords. But she swallowed them down, let them buzz in her stomach instead.
The two of them finished lunch and headed to her room. Hours passed in silence, Carl staring at the wall, April at her hands.
They said nothing.
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Two kids on the hood of Heidi the Jeep.
She can feel his chest pressed against her back. Warmth like summer asphalt against her back, a thousand movie theater dates, all just for this one.
The air is pigmented with jasmine. Thick, sweet, like ink. The sky blots itself into darkness, rosy afterglow slipping into the horizon.
His voice is bubblegum tea, hot breath collecting on the nape of her neck. "Remember me?"
She wants nothing more than his caustic skin against her lips again. To rewind this tape and do it again.
"Yes," she says, breathless, eyes closed, heatwave sunrise peony folded to her knees.
"I don't think you do."
She rakes her fingernails across the back of her hand, and blood begins trickling out, drops landing like rain on Heidi's red hood. She looks back at him, and his eyes, they're not there. Just sockets, just blood-crusted pits and skin peeling from muscle like wax paper.
"Remember me," he snarls, teeth grit, as fire consumes the remains of his chap-cracked cheekbones. "Remember, eyes open—"
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"April!"
His voice was louder than expected, and quickly swelled to fill the darkness. Empty silence flooded into the room like saltwater.
"April," Carl said more quietly, yet annoyance was still evident.
The reply came softly. "What?"
"You were screaming. In your sleep."
From across the room, he could feel her temperature drop ten degrees. Without shifting position, she replied defensively. "It was nobody. Nothing."
He blinked. "Okay. Whatever." The he turned over, back towards April?
A moment passed. And another. Carl could feel his focus grow bleary, and considered the notion that April had dozed off.
"You know," she sighed, as if on cue. He heard her sheets rustle as she tucked her knees to her chest. "Life was so much easier a couple years ago. Hell, even a, uh... a couple months."
Carl held her words in his head. "No kidding," he mused, and his voice hovered in the darkness, like a cold pill he was unable to swallow.
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QOTD: MUSIC RECS
AOTD: OKAY THEN
•Thunder — Imagine Dragons
•Enter Sandman — Metallica
•Eyes Closed — Halsey
•The Way It Was — Coast Modern
•Guns and Roses — Bohnes
•Stupid for You — Waterparks
I HOPE EVERYONE IS/WAS HAVING A GOOD DAY AND PLEASE STAY STRONG AND HAPPY <3
LOVE YOU ALL <3 THANK YOU FOR BELIEVING IN ME OR WHATEVER YOU GUYS ARE DOING LMAO
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Word Count: 543
(I'M SO SRRY)
Created 5-5-17
Edited 6-6-17
Edited 6-28-17
Edited 8-21-17
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