he’s my drug,the deadly addiction I silently vow to quit but never will. right now I need him too much...No, not him. I refuse to be too dependent on anyone. So no, I don’t need him-I need this. I need to not think, to let the numbness I’ve been feeling for the past 6 long months fade away, just for a little while. Just a little while to feel normal. To feel like my only problem at the moment is to worry about getting caught, getting caught being here-being here with him. I need to feel like that’s my only issue; I need to be caught up in a moment, even in a moment as meaningless as this.
In this moment that revolves around heated kisses, wandering hands, adrenaline rushes, and my swollen stomach bumping against his very toned one. With teenage hearts hammering in are chests at the knowledge that what is going on at this very moment is both very wrong and very right at the same time.
Of course the wrong long out weighs the right, as it undoubtedly does in cases such as these. Right now, I should be in my booth, running sound for this Godforsaken play. I should be reflecting on the events of the past few months. I should be coming to terms with my pregnancy, the nause and morning sickness. all that jazz. I should be allowing myself to forgive noah for abandoning me. I should be trying to see things from his point of view. I should be trying to feel anything other than utter hate for him and his “new and improved” girlfriend. I should be trying my very best to deal with jacksons illness, comforting him, telling him things will be fine-that he’ll be fine, even when I, myself believe that things really won’t be fine, not this time, anyway. I should be dealing with a million other things other than this.
i should be anywhere but here, in a booth with Andrew riley, pushing all the “shoulds” in my life to the very back of my mind by indulging in this second sinful act against God.
but he's addicting. and I really can’t help but wonder sometimes if things might have turned out differently between him and i if i hadn't gotten pregnant, if jackson hadn’t gotten sick, if my life hadn’t completely gone to shit. Maybe if things hadn’t turned out the way they did we might have actually had something more than this simple animalistic attraction. Maybe just maybe I would have been addicted to him for reasons other then his scent (resembling some type of masculine shampoo) or his physical attractiveness (a chisled face with stunning blue eyes and his hair, jet black, ). Maybe I wouldn’t have keep coming back for his taste, or his all around knowledge of where to put his delicate hands. Maybe instead of those things, I would have kept coming back because I liked the way he spoke. Or the way he smiles at me when I tell a joke. Or maybe just maybe I could have kept coming back because I was in love with him.
But we don’t talk. I don’t tell jokes. he doesn’t smile, and this isn’t love.
All I know of him is his taste, his smell, and the fact that if I apply just the right amount of pressure to the point where his lips meet mine he pulls me closer to him, Inviting me to to use him, to take out all my anger at the things in my life out on him.
I’m sure there’s something he wants to forget too, possibly a someone. A first love perhaps. I really don’t know, like I said before, we don’t talk. We simply use each other for a single lustful moment and when that moment is done, we mutter our goodbyes, and go back to our separate lives.
For a little while anyway.
just until the high wears off and we find ourselves needing a little pick-me-up. Then we seek each other out, drop whatever the hell we’re doing and 'get down to business'. There are no “oh honey you had a bad day?” conversations, or any talking at all for that matter. Conversations about bad days and troubles at home are things for people in an actual relationship, for people in love.
We are not in love.
We will never be in love.
We were over before we began.
We never stood a chance.
he is my drug, my addiction, what keeps me grounded.
I may not love him, but I do love the way he is capable of making me feel: like everything is fine, like i'm not 6 months pregnant, like jackson will be okay. And most importantly I love the way he makes me forget that before I met him, I had to make myself bleed to feel alive.
and I almost love him for that, almost.
But I don’t, it’s like I said before, we never stood a chance.
Labels: Angst, Short story., Teenage















