aerin hugged me today.
i was sitting with her at lunch, and we held hands across the table. and she smiled at me. and she told me she really liked me.
i told her i really liked her, too.
i told her i wanted her to be my girlfriend, and she said she'd really like that.
after a few minutes of silence, and after she took two bites of her peanut butter and jelly sandwich, she told me that she was getting sad again. she said that since i was her boyfriend now that she thought i should know.
she told me she was hearing those goddamn voices again. she said they told her terrible things, like how she should hurt herself, and that no one cared about her.
and i told her that she was wrong. i told her that those voices were lying because i cared about her. and her skin was too beautiful to hurt anymore. and that she didn't deserve any of those terrible things they ever said.
she shrugged and said she didn't know.
i told her that once we got out of here that i wanted to take her on a proper date.
and she said we would see.
then is when she hugged me, before she went off to her room.
