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Questions of Bond Pt. 1
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Three Little Birds Questions of Bond Pt. 2
"Mattie, baby, look at me," she told me softly. I did. The look in her eye made my heart ache in past loneliness, and it made it pound a bit harder at the thought of some kind of permanency. "You're not going to lose me. I don't know how to make you believe that I'm not going anywhere than to prove it to you. We all have dark sides to our past, baby. Everyone is running from something.""Mykel said the same thing," I said allowing myself a small smile. I looked at her then, closely, and saw dark memories behind her eyes. "What are you running from, Liz?"Liz's eyes filled, unwillingly if the look on her face said anything about the tears. Liz is not generally an overly emotional person. That's not to say she's cold and unfeeling. But unlike me, especially then, is not controlled by them."I need another blunt if w
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I soon felt the mixture of the alcohol and marijuana, my mind hazy, but not unpleasantly so.We migrated to the living room after the game was done, Mykel having to catch me as I stumbled over the floor. I felt his propinquity next to me, the heat of his arm wrapped around my waist, stealing me. I found myself leaning into his hold. My hand coming to rest on his chest.I closed my eyes, my head pressed into his shoulder.It would be so easy...I had not noticed we were standing still until he tugged lightly on me, whispering to come on. We walked to the couch and he set me lightly on it. The room spun lightly and I found myself leaning once more into him. I inhaled him. I both felt and heard his pulse speed up at my impingement, he inhaled sharply as my arm wound around
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Liz did not say anything for a long time. She rolled six blunts, one after another before she finally lit one. She hit it several times before exhaling in a sigh. She stared in the direction Mykel had run."Can I ask what happened?"She listened with alacrity as I explained what happened, leaving out the details of what I had told him."...then he ran out of the room."She nodded. "Kaiden was Mykel's best friend. They grew up together. He was always a shy kid, but very sweet. He was a lot like you. When they were fourteen they began dating. I knew and so did our parents, but that was it."I smiled sadly at the thought of young Mykel, happy and carefree with his first love. I frowned as I waited for what was to come, as I k
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He scoffed derisively but nodded, his eyes finally sliding open. His eyes were soft as they bore into mine, but within those honey-wheat eyes held more pain than I had seen in a long time. Fresh and refreshed, a memory and memories from years before, but felt as if it were all happening for the first time.I linked our fingers together and gently pulled him up the stairs and into his room."Come on." I helped him get undressed, directing him in his movements. Movements that were of second nature at this point.I crawled beside him and saw thanks in his eyes that I wasn't going to leave him."It's my fault," he whispered. We had been lying quietly so long, I had thought he had fallen asleep. His arm was wrapped around my midsection, his hand closed into a fist agai
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"I've never been in love before, Liz. But, I..." I sighed. "I don't want to be a replacement for what he lost with Kaiden. I don't want him to kiss me and think of him or...anything else. I don't even know how he feels about me at this point, so I've...just...been taking it moment by moment." I looked at her then, my eyes pleading for understanding. "Please don't tell him, Liz."She smiled lightly and kissed my temple. "I won't, Mattie."When we pulled into the parking lot of the Cooke County Mall, I stared at the entrance in an anxious haze."You okay there? Did your sails lose their wind?" She chuckled to herself at the joke."I just...I don't have any idea what I could even possibly begin looking for as a gift. I'm looking for a needle in a haystack large as Texas."
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He smiled again, though lighter, not reaching his eyes. "When I was a kid I had this book. I saw a program where they were doing a documentary about her and in it, they recited some of her poems. I fell in love with her work. It...touched me somehow."I would sit and read it over and over again. There was a tree that provided a lot of shade in the play yard. I'd sit and read it there while the other kids played sports."That's how I met Kaiden, actually. I was reading it and some older kids started picking on me for it. I was small for my age. I didn't hit a decent growth spurt until I was about sixteen. Anyway, they grabbed my book from me and started making fun of me and it as they shredded it. Kaiden came, being the martial artist that he was, even in third grade...he, uh, came to my rescue. He gathered all the pages that were strewn across the ground and took me to
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His feelings for me were growing deeper and for the first time since Kaiden's death, he had an interest in more than a one-night stand. I gave way to the thought that that's possibly why he didn't look at me.I was a reminder that he was alive, that his first love wasn't, and he was beginning to move on.Subconsciously, as he began the process of life and living, and as he started falling in love, he was hanging on tooth and nail to the promise of a devotion that had died six years before.Once everything was smoked, we collectively stood and made our way back to the house. The temperature was dropping and while Liz and I had had the presence of mind to put on a jacket, Mykel had not. We entered the house, quiet and morose, shrouded in grief, and the darkness of the past.
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"I was wondering if you could maybe, um, t-take me to the m-m-mall? I, uh, I want to get something for Mykel. I want to maybe cheer him up."Through the whole stuttering mess of my supplication, I disconnected and reestablished eye contact several times. She said nothing about this. She told me it was progress. At the time she said this she pointed out that in the last few weeks I had made eye contact with her more times than in the three years she had known me.I could not argue with this logic. Nor did I try to, as I saw the truth in this.Liz smiled, settling her palm smoothly against my face and kissed my forehead. "I wouldn't mind in the least, sweet cheeks. What did you have in mind?"I stopped, a chair mid-way up to be placed on the table. I lowered my arms
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