"Dominick. Hey, wake up," I whispered, trying not to make so much noise. He stirred gently, rubbing his eyes.
"Sawyer, what the hell."
"I'm going to the lake. You coming?"
"What time is it?"
"I don't know, three?"
"Three-? Like, AM?"
"What other three do you sleep through, dumbass?"
"Well, you didn't specify."
I grabbed his hand, dragging him off the couch and leaving a shoe in the door so we wouldn't be locked out the entirety of the morning.
"So this lake?"
"Yep."
There was a little bit of silence, mostly concentration, as there were rocky parts of the trail we had to avoid.
"Do you remember Brittany's party a month ago?"
"Like you'd let me forget."
"We played spin-the-bottle and I had to kiss Mary," Dominick reminded. "You know what was cute?"
"Shut up."
"That you looked utterly pissed."
"Shut up."
"That's when I realized I liked you."
My cheeks were beyond burning. His eyes met mine and he nearly tripped upon taking another step. I grabbed his hand and pulled him closer to me. He went to lean in and I let go of him and ran ahead. "You tease!"
We reached the lake soon after, hands tangled. He had his forehead resting on my shoulder, sitting on the rocks, our legs crossed.
"Do you ever- just forget about everything?" He asked.
"You sound high."
"Shut up," he laughed.
We talked as the sun rose, speaking of anything that happens to surface each other's train of thought.
"Sawyer?"
"Yeah?"
"So like a day or two ago I was looking for that cologne you wear because I didn't have any. I looked in your bag and, I noticed your prescription pills were there."
My eyes managed to maintain their size, but I was mentally screaming.
"And now that I think about it, I've noticed you've taken pills before, but I figured they were for a cold or something."
"You didn't get the pills that day, Sawyer." He said. "I just wanna know what's- I don't know."
"I talked to your mom."
"Why?"
"Because this is eating you alive.. Because I'm worried about you."
"Well thanks but you didn't have to bring my mother into this."
"She's your mother, Dominick. She gave birth to you."
"She said it was all your dad, y'know."
"That doesn't change anything and it's making me feel nothing but confused."
He ran his hands through his hair.
"I mean she's forcing me to live with a wall between us and now she wants to give me a hug from the other side? She's my mom but I can't forget what she's done."
Am I missing something? He's so bipolar. I can never tell how he's thinking and how he feels about this.
"I'm sorry."
"Don't be. You tried to fix this, but I honestly don't know to feel."
"It's just- I don't know where to start trying to fix this. I'm 100% lost and you're all I've got."
He was nervously running his fingers along the ground we were sitting on, so I put his hand in mine.
"We'll get through this. "
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I promise."
He chuckled. "Well aren't you extra sappy today."
Well this was so late. I'm sorry.
I've got so much to do on my personal account, as well as trying to work on Dominawyer and some stuff for Ship Chronicles. I'll sell my cold dead soul for some ideas. What kind of things do you want in this? What do you want them to do (Reese I'm not writing smut)?
