HEY! He’s the best looking piece of hell there is and don’t you forget it, Max.
The lollipop gets worked on in his mouth while his stepsister talks and joins him in sitting. "Threats used to get me what I wanted." Used to. Not anymore. People didn’t take that shit here because there wasn’t any room for that bullying bullshit. "Tommy doesn’t like the word. It’s really just offensive where he’s from for him." He thinks of the time he said it with vitriol before he could stop it and how Tommy walked away from him. Billy learned not to say it after watching the only guy giving him a chance walk away.
Another run of his hand through the curls.
"It’s a work in progress okay? I’m trying to fix my shit and it’s not happening overnight. It won’t. I can barely keep the truce I’ve got with Harrington and Eddie. But I’m fucking trying and it’s hard!" His voice was raising towards a yell at the end. Not because Billy is mad, but because he’s frustrated. It’s tough to change when you’re figuring out how to socialize again as a different person.
He takes a breath. "The memories of it, yeah. Like riding shotgun in my own head. I can’t… I can’t take cold showers anymore, or hot ones. There’s hot springs nearby and I can’t go to them."
And Max is the only one from home here who knows why.
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The lollipop gets worked on in his mouth while his stepsister talks and joins him in sitting. "Threats used to get me what I wanted." Used to. Not anymore. People didn’t take that shit here because there wasn’t any room for that bullying bullshit. "Tommy doesn’t like the word. It’s really just offensive where he’s from for him." He thinks of the time he said it with vitriol before he could stop it and how Tommy walked away from him. Billy learned not to say it after watching the only guy giving him a chance walk away.
Another run of his hand through the curls.
"It’s a work in progress okay? I’m trying to fix my shit and it’s not happening overnight. It won’t. I can barely keep the truce I’ve got with Harrington and Eddie. But I’m fucking trying and it’s hard!" His voice was raising towards a yell at the end. Not because Billy is mad, but because he’s frustrated. It’s tough to change when you’re figuring out how to socialize again as a different person.
He takes a breath. "The memories of it, yeah. Like riding shotgun in my own head. I can’t… I can’t take cold showers anymore, or hot ones. There’s hot springs nearby and I can’t go to them."
And Max is the only one from home here who knows why.