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[onlyoneof]

[shhh shhh only continuations now]

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[skepticalities]

It's how I feel, you don't . . . really need to thank me for that.

[onlyoneof]

[kisses him again, short and sweet]

[skepticalities]

. . . thank you.

[onlyoneof]

What for?

[skepticalities]

For being there, for being . . . you.

[onlyoneof]

... I made you cry.

[skepticalities]

Not . . . mnngh.

[onlyoneof]

That makes me a terrible boyfriend.

[skepticalities]

You didn't make me.

[onlyoneof]

I was the main contributor.

[skepticalities]

It's because I care about you.

[onlyoneof]

Thank you.

[skepticalities]

. . . mm.

[rests his head on his shoulder.]

[onlyoneof]

[sighs]

[skepticalities]

I'm sorry.

[onlyoneof]

It's okay.

[skepticalities]

[breathing. and then, speaking.]

. . . just the thought of . . . all of this. I'm good at pushing it down, at— compartmentalizing it, but sometimes, I can't.

[onlyoneof]

I know, but we're okay.

[skepticalities]

Are we?

[onlyoneof]

[... we're going to go lie down]

[skepticalities]

[. . . lays down next to him quietly, setting his glasses on their bedside table.]

[onlyoneof]

... whatever I learn from home, won't change what we have here.

[skepticalities]

I wasn't concerned about that.

[onlyoneof]

... what were you concerned about?

[skepticalities]

Things happening to you at all. To Olivia. That's . . .

[shakes his head.]