okfelicity
જ⁀➴ ❝ You and I we weren't born to die, though it felt we did when you saw me become a monster I really was destined to become. ׂׂૢ ❞
by definition, the term means to breathe in gas, air, and other substances.
forgetting how to breathe shouldn't be possible, but when anxiety corrupts the mind it may corrupt the body, and you may be unable to inhale due to the attack.
that's how Steve Harrington feels whenever Stacey Evens is around. He loses his breath, and forgets how to breathe.
how unlikely such a person could strip his oxygen away at just a sight, or glance, only this time it was to apologize for staring at her.
to apologize also for the way he has to shove her body off the street so that the creatures would not get to her before he could explain why he carries himself like someone that does not know any given language or how to function in the air around them whenever he she is near.
Steve might as well apologize for everything after that, for in just a few rushed, breathless sentences of explaining that monsters are real and one of them is after him in the night, Stacy just so happens to be his next prey for accidentally bumping into him on the sidewalk by their homes while already having a bad day.