don't get ahead of me || felix & leo
Jan 20, 2021 20:16:07 GMT -5
Post by maverick hale 🌧️ d5 [nyte] on Jan 20, 2021 20:16:07 GMT -5
leo pierce.
Sixteen years and I'm still waging war against the dawn, begging the earth to quit spinning 'cause it's always made me dizzy. Sunshine scalds and heavens blind, forbidden fruit that I've never found tempting. There's beauty in the broken and I don't think I'd know what to do with myself if I was anything else. Pretty sure that makes me a coward, but I don't mind. I'm also much worse.
I sleep in because I can, stretching this stupid promise I made Spencer in hopes it'll eventually snap. I can't help but feel like I'm winning - stumbling into Biology an hour late still bed-haired and barely dressed, hoping I've pissed someone off. I've got to prove how little this all matters or else I'll start caring that I'm crashing and burning.
I'm supposed to meet with my friends at lunch, but at some point I gave up trying to chase hurricanes. My lips always go cracked from forced smiles and the way Poe and Greer light up when they're with each other coaxes another migraine up the base of my skull. If anyone noticed I slipped away less than halfway through the period, I'm glad they didn't say anything.
The Gym's the only place I've ever found fond memories. It's big enough that I feel small, easy to miss as I slot myself between the bleachers. It's nice to catch my breath, those too-familiar fingers easing up from around my throat until I forget they're even there. Not quite peaceful, but almost. I don't usually come here alone, but I can't admit I actually miss him.
So I don't.
Footsteps snap me out of a blissful half daze, cracking my head against the seat above me in my haste to sit up. "Fuck!" I blink through double vision, mourning the afternoon nap slipping through my fingers sand.
Worst of all, a familiar face comes into focus.
"Why're you here?" I grumble, stumbling as I stand on legs that have forgotten how to carry my weight. I don't know much about Felix outside of how often he's stuck to Camila's side, which is reason enough to dislike him as far as I'm concerned. "This is my Gym until the coach kicks me out."
I mean, it's not. But confidence is half the sell.
"it's friendly fire and sunlight"