Title: Damsel in the Red Dress
Genres: Slice of life/romance/drama/tear jerker/friends to lovers
Rating: PG
Updates: Every Friday
Warnings: In this excerpt, none, but the series includes references to blood, injuries, and anxiety? (i don't know why Tapas considers mental health a "mature" topic, but the way some of the chapters are written is designed to simulate feelings of anxiety, depression, panic attacks, being on pain medication, and such, as multi-sensory an experience as possible, so it could make you feel weird maybe)
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I snatched the radio out of his lap in the middle of one particularly obnoxious emo or pop-punk song, and turned the sound down to an inaudible mutter, hiding the radio under my shirt.
“Give it back.”
“Not on your life. How can you listen to this stuff? It sounds like bad feelings.”
“That’s kind of the point. Music is about expressing how you feel.”
“What kind of feeling exactly is a “Chemical Romance?”
“I don’t know… hormones?”
“That is so gross.”
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“Just give it back.”
“Never.”
He hesitates.
I wonder how many signs there were that I missed. How many times he showed in subtle ways that he liked me - and I didn’t even notice them - too busy believing that nobody did - that nobody ever would.
I wonder how many times I hurt him without even realizing it.
“I have one more stupid joke.”
“Oh, shut up.”
“I have to be Frank with you, “The Four Seasons” are the worst band I’ve ever heard.”
“How can you even say that? You’re listening to people MOANING about CANCER, right now.”
(okey doke, excerpts i can do)
