**very short, quick read!!** a small look into the lives of kenny and butters growing up together, and finding difficulty letting go. . warning: brief mentions of child abuse. . note: this was actually a piece i submitted to a literary magazine for publishing in 2019 as a project for a creative writing course i took, which is why it's as short as it is. i have heavily contemplated making a longer story based on this little one, so if that interests anybody i'd love to know :) initially uploaded on ao3 as neighborhoodscum, reuploaded and revised