EXCERPT OF ORIGINAL STORY [ do not steal ]
❝ why do you choose to wear those? those earrings, i mean. ❞ she asked. ❝ you’re not even religious, right? ❞
he laughed, a sort of hollow sound, like he’d heard those words once before. his slender fingers reached up and fingered the blackened cross dangling from his left ear. ❝ who said it was a choice? ❞