“I’m only as real as you make me, Jerome. That’s the only way I know to explain this.”
“But I don’t get it! I want you to stay here! I love you Mitch!” He hugged me and I smiled and hugged back.
“Just keep doing that and you’ll be fine. And especially no cheating.”
He simply nodded then let me go, heading off to his room to record. I had been glitching often lately and wasn’t very fond of it. If I glitched for too long, it started to hurt, especially since I tried to stay here. I knew Jerome loved me, gave me all his heart, but I was just fragile, easy to send away. Even when he would fake say he loved someone for a recording, I would glitch. I hated it and would have to run to Jerome’s room quickly before all the work I’d done on anything was all wasted.
I sighed and walked into the kitchen, raiding the fridge for anything I could find. I could here Jerome yelling in his room. He was recording with Adam again. This it was just the two of them. I couldn’t help but get a little jealous. With that, I felt myself glitch for only a split second. I sighed and walked to his bedroom door, stopping myself from going inside. I stood and listened. I could tell he was done with the recording. Then I froze.
“Oh, yeah, love you too Adam.” He sounded sarcastic but it made me very upset.
I felt myself glitch as I was being pulled back. I held my head and fell to the floor with a loud scream. I tried to hold myself here. Then two larger arms wrapped around me and all I could hear were three words over and over again.
“I love you.”
My eyes were shut but the pain stopped. I had came back and I cracked my eyes open, seeing Jerome above me with tears falling down his eyes. I looked the other way and saw the red squares from my glitch fading away.
“Please Jerome, stop doing that..” I pleaded, looking up at him again.
“Do WHAT Mitch?” He said, wiping away tears he had.
“Throw that word around so lightly..”
“What word?” Then it dawned on him. “Love? Oh god Mitch, I’m sorry, you know I don’t mean it!” He apologized.
“I know, just please be careful.. I’m like a vase in a house full of small children.. The slightest bump could break me, and it’s not fixed able.. You just have to buy a new one and get on with life..”
“You aren’t a vase, you’re a human being, and deserve all my love, not half, not 99.999999%, all of it, all 100%.
I smiled and we got up, spending the rest of the day together with just each other. I had a bad feeling about Adam though. Jerome said too when he told Adam he loved him, so Adam must have said I love you first. I’d just have to watch him, or he might try to take my love from me.
