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“What are you talkin’ about? Why would I leave?” he questions, but when I look up at his face, he’s still painted with what I’ve done to him. “It’s not a big deal.” “Not a big deal?” I growl, shooting up. “I tried to fuckin’ kill you.” “So? It’d be a good way to die,”
“Your crazy is stuck with my crazy, Whaley.”
didn’t mean it. I didn’t mean it....
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“Whaley, relax. I’m okay.”
“I’m so sorry, Bunky. I would never hurt you like that. I couldn’t stop it from happenin’. Jesus Christ, I’d rather kill myself than ever harm you in a way you didn’t want.”
“It just took control.” He looks up at me with confusion. “What took control?” “There are things you don’t know about me…”
“Dark things. Things I never wanted you to know.” “I can handle dark,” he tells me, and it sounds so similar to what I once told him. “Whaley. I’m right here, let me help you.”
“You won’t leave?” “Never,” he says, stroking the side of my face. “It’s so fucked, Bunk.” “I don’t care.”
don’t care if it’s fucked or not. All I care about is you.”
“Are you sure you want to know?” I question, my fingers gripping his hips as I try to ground myself further. He moves me to the bed, sitting beside me, his face serious as he nods. “Tell me.”
I tell the story of my past, hoping he’ll still be here when I’m done.
mother was obsessed with the idea of love. She was so easily manipulated that nothin’ mattered but finding the right one. Always glidin’ from one guy to the next like a revolvin’ door.” I pause, thinking about that time and all the men she was with. Some tall, some fat, some nice, some… “She never seemed to have a type, hopped on the first one to give her that attention she was seekin’. They’d date, he’d eventually leave, and the cycle would start over again.”
