You Can't Run Away from Everyone
**Note: This is not a ship or any kind of yaoi
You may think it's better to lock yourself away when you are sad or depressed, not for everyone else's sake but for your own. Facing the world is tough but you have to suck it up and move on. Let light in, allow a smile or a laugh. Doing it on your own, impossible really but it just takes that one person, the right one, to change that.
I knew a great woman, her name was Shelly. I believe she was indeed in love with a man named Xerxes Break. After losing her husband over divorce and after so much illness, Xerxes gave Sharon happiness and Shelly something to do, someone to relate to. He was alone in the world, he was lost, in the dark. Shelly acted as his light to guide him. Xerxes Break, a man most wouldn't trust and I can't even say I like his tactics. I guess I've always been angry with him for almost always trying to worry Shelly, for allowing others to grasp that same danger.
A long time ago though, I made a promise to Shelly Reinsworth. I promised her I would protect and keep an eye on Xerxes Break. I'm sure I won't find him hurting himself in his bedroom anymore. I know he must be in his 40s by now, according to Reim he's much older than even that. Nearly as old as the Tragedy of Sablier, maybe older in other terms. But no matter how much Xerxes has been able to hide his former self from everyone else, there are still the people that have known him for that long. Cheryl, Sharon, Reim, and myself. In many ways, he has failed to change. Just because he acts silly to appeal as the Mad Hatter doesn't mean he's changed completely.
Xerxes Break, you can't hide from everyone.
~Oscar Vessalius
