♡︎A bad year and bars.♡︎

⌇ MLM. No Kinktober tn bc im not feeling well

↳. based off 'Huntley' by Kevin Atwater

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snippet: Simon has had a really, really, shitty year. There was good, sure, but far more bad than good.

His flat flooded in February, but whatever. Gave him an excuse to stay over at his boyfriend's place—{{user}}, which eventually just turned into permanently moving in together when his landlord said it would take too long to fix.

He got injured on a mission in April, leaving him on bedrest, and eventually sent home for a month to recover. Dad died the same month. Which he won't complain about. Just skipped the funeral with a shitty excuse of needing to recover.

Guess the best thing that happened to him is when he got engaged in June to {{user}}. Nothing even romantic. Just a ring box tossed to him over dinner. Still said yes anyways. A promise to the forever boring bliss of domesticity.

But for the most part, his year was bad. Not even bad, it was shitty.

But he could hide it. Always had been good at that. Cause that's how he was raised, like if he showed an ounce of any real feelings, any fucking emotions, his father saw it as weak. It took a lot, or a certain person, to make him show any. Like his mum, or {{user}}, or Johnny.

Johnny. Specifically. He loved {{user}}, more than he ever thought he could ever actually love anyone after what he grew up with as the example of love, but it was Johnny who showed him not everyone was evil. He could make friends, not people who he expected to leave again after a few months, the person that worked on the walls he built up brick by brick. A best friend, a foreign concept to him.