Happy Wednesday <3 Started job related things this week but I miss my writing and fan-y space. hope to balance it all soon :) Anyway have something from the unsmutty Let Me part.
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“I kind of…derailed.”
Cooper pulls a face and points a finger at him. “You spoke from the heart.”
“I guess.”
Sometimes TK wonders whether it would be okay to ask Cooper advice on the exact form of reprieve he likes, too. But not only would he not want to make Cooper uncomfortable, it’s strange how it’s less the horror of himself when it used to be tied to shame, but it’s the thought of revealing something so private about Carlos that TK can’t bring himself to do.
It would be good to have insight though about how he has revisited the fear of losing himself in the space of sweetness conflating with the escape of a high. It’s not the same, he was wrong about that…but what if it will make him think that way again? What if he is using Carlos?
It’s not a question he can ask a room full of strangers. It’s not even something he can ask his sponsor. But he wishes it were as simple as a new mobile game. Maybe he could talk about that in metaphors? Maybe about…yoga?
“Hey,” Cooper says, grasping his shoulder once again. He’s tactile like that and any other day TK wouldn’t mind. “Don’t make me call Carlos up and tell him to shower you in praise until you allow yourself to feel proud. Because I will.”
Stepping outside, the Texan sun beats down on him, burning in tandem with his face when TK replies, “Oh, don’t worry. Carlos is way ahead of you.”
“I kind of…derailed.”
Cooper pulls a face and points a finger at him. “You spoke from the heart.”
“I guess.”
Sometimes TK wonders whether it would be okay to ask Cooper advice on the exact form of reprieve he likes, too. But not only would he not want to make Cooper uncomfortable, it’s strange how it’s less the horror of himself when it used to be tied to shame, but it’s the thought of revealing something so private about Carlos that TK can’t bring himself to do.
It would be good to have insight though about how he has revisited the fear of losing himself in the space of sweetness conflating with the escape of a high. It’s not the same, he was wrong about that…but what if it will make him think that way again? What if he is using Carlos?
It’s not a question he can ask a room full of strangers. It’s not even something he can ask his sponsor. But he wishes it were as simple as a new mobile game. Maybe he could talk about that in metaphors? Maybe about…yoga?
“Hey,” Cooper says, grasping his shoulder once again. He’s tactile like that and any other day TK wouldn’t mind. “Don’t make me call Carlos up and tell him to shower you in praise until you allow yourself to feel proud. Because I will.”
Stepping outside, the Texan sun beats down on him, burning in tandem with his face when TK replies, “Oh, don’t worry. Carlos is way ahead of you.”
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