Mar 02, 2011 15:58
he doesn't have a family, and that's all you really know about him. she doesn't have a family either, not really. no family but you because you like to think you're needed, and the crazy lesbians she couldn't see until she was almost seven years old.
your heart breaks for them, and you're obsessed. you like to watch them doing little things and it teeters on voyeurism but at the same time it really doesn't.
his teeth are crooked and his fingers are skin-and-bones and you can't imagine that he even owns a hairbrush and she's the exact opposite and you like to watch them emotionally grappling for one another.
they need each other. that's all there really is to it.
you have someone you need too and he's really not that perfect and his clothes have holes in them and his not-quite-beard sort of bothers you but that's all not too bad when it really boils down to it. you could really get lost in him, and you do.
you're not really sure why you all wound up together and when you think about it, it's a freak accident. impossible, even.
but each and every day you're quietly thanking the cosmos because this is your life and it's really nice and regardless of if you choose to believe it, you are blessed.
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