I can't stand couples. The whole couples thing. The holding hands, I can just barely tolerate, because I can simply turn my head away and pretend it's not happening. The kissing and cuddling - basically the same, only it cuts deeper.
No, it's the secret communication. The whole language. The talk of private things, innocent things, things that you do together. The way you look when you're dreaming. What you are planning for your future. The special breakfast you shared. That stuff I can't avoid because it's like a smoker blowing their fumes in my face.
And I get it. Sam and I were the same. We had an entire secret connection going on. We made people jealous just by being together. We gave off a vibe that suggested that we could tear off each other's clothes at any moment. We glowed.
Now I'm on the outside of this exclusive secret society, looking in and almost but not quite remembering. I'm not on my own out here, I know there are hundreds of us, but I am alone. All of us on the outside are invisible to each other, because the light of the inside is too bright. Or maybe it's just me, I'm the one that nobody sees. I don't think there's a way to know for certain.
But it is cold out here.
No, it's the secret communication. The whole language. The talk of private things, innocent things, things that you do together. The way you look when you're dreaming. What you are planning for your future. The special breakfast you shared. That stuff I can't avoid because it's like a smoker blowing their fumes in my face.
And I get it. Sam and I were the same. We had an entire secret connection going on. We made people jealous just by being together. We gave off a vibe that suggested that we could tear off each other's clothes at any moment. We glowed.
Now I'm on the outside of this exclusive secret society, looking in and almost but not quite remembering. I'm not on my own out here, I know there are hundreds of us, but I am alone. All of us on the outside are invisible to each other, because the light of the inside is too bright. Or maybe it's just me, I'm the one that nobody sees. I don't think there's a way to know for certain.
But it is cold out here.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'