"they needed the comfort only found when tangled in the sheets"
it was always them. the trio. to the three of them, they were the sun, the stars and the moon. just luke, thomas and apple.
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started & finished ; 2017
mature themes and language
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After the bombing, it was like Thomas was just a puppet who had some unenthusiastic person pulling the strings. He would sleep, eat, then Apple would come over and distract him, before they ate together and then he slept again.
The depression hit hard and hit his heart. Thomas fell into a weekly routine of writing letters to Jim Phillips, in regards to Thomas' constant asking for something that would put him to sleep and never wake him up. Deep down, Thomas knew that the effort was hopeless. He couldn't leave Apple on her own.
Thomas was so used to having Luke by his side that when he didn't feel the warmth of Luke's normal, lightly charted skin, he felt was like someone had slowly driven a dull knife into his stomach and was twisting it around and around.
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For last months of sixth year, Thomas had felt protected; safe. Every night once they knew the boys were asleep, Luke would come and place soft kisses down Thomas' stomach before going back to his own bed- leaving Thomas wanting and begging for more. Then inbetween classes, the boys would make out in the same broom closet for five minutes before going to their next class.
Apple had never felt real love before until she met Thomas and Luke. It wasn't the type of love where she wanted to make out with either of them every second of every day, but the type of love that makes you feel warm inside and smells like Thomas' mother's cinnamon cookies that always tasted like heaven. The two boys made her feel whole and like she was truly loved. And the friendship that the trio made up for the awful childhood she had had, from the racial slurs from the kids at the prestigious primary school she went to back in America, that was filled with privileged white children to the day she was kicked out when her adoptive parents found out she had been accepted into an elite school for science.
Luke's death left both Thomas and Apple scarred and terrified. Both young adults had witnessed Luke's awful death and whenever Apple closed her eyes she saw the horrific sight of her best friends foot being thrown towards her by the blast of the bomb.
Some nights sleep would overtake the girl and she would wake up shaking and scared. The only she could calm down was when she thought about Thomas' lips on hers and and the gentle kisses he would place on her thighs.
Their intimacy was only a distraction, and the thought alone distracted Apple enough to be able to sleep soundly.
