Your Loving Ways

"What do you want, Carson?"

"Would it be cringe to say 'you'?"

𝐃𝐄𝐍𝐈𝐒𝐄 𝐔𝐌𝐁𝐀 wants to be real with herself. While the obstacles in her life continue to pile up, with parents that only care about what's on the surface, she tries to treat things lightly. However, this proves to be a difficult task, and she's not sure she's strong enough to manage it. Despite the challenging days she faces, Denise wants to start being grateful, but she's finding it hard to do so.

For her, the smallest things can have the biggest impact and continuously cause her worry, but 𝐂𝐀𝐑𝐒𝐎𝐍 𝐍𝐎𝐑𝐑𝐈𝐒 doesn't understand why. After a successful football season, he decides to explore the other sports Providence High offers. On the day he joins his friends in watching their school host a track meet, he stumbles upon Denise and can't seem to get her out of his mind ever since. This is strange, but he doesn't necessarily dislike it.

What's even more strange is that Carson is pretty sure that whatever he might be feeling is not platonic, and it's freaking him out because he is anything but a lover.

( YOUR LOVING WAYS, LOU. )