This is my college debut, as I recently graduated high school (thank god). Anyway, these stories will be told in 300 word snippets, resulting in more chapters and quicker updates.


Mistakes

"I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom."
-Edgar Allen Poe


If there were gods, or perhaps, if there was a god, then this may not have happened. I may not have fallen so far so fast. I don't mean to rule out the possibility of a god as I, myself, have come to believe in some of the basic fundamental properties of religion. I'm not so naïve as to withhold responsibility; I abhor people who cower away from the truth. And so, I have typed in order to legitimize any claims that I was partially to blame.

As much as I am relieved of guilt from you all, my skin is reminded of my shortcomings daily. So please, I beg of you, when you realize the depth of my deception, I ask that you forgive not I, but forgive God for influencing men like Tobias. He is also the reason that I am soon to be staring into the eyes of black balloons-

"Reid?"

Startled, the youngest agent snaps his laptop shut , and looks at his concerned friend. Without thinking, as if he ever does anymore, he grabs his arm to control the multitude of twitches. The older male's gaze travels down, and notices that Reid is obviously trying to control his undisciplined body. "Are you okay man?"

No. Is what Reid desperately wants to say; yet the words slip from his tongue, all the way to the floor, and are buried beneath the soles of his shoes.

"Reid. We're all worried about you man", Morgan sat betwixt Reid and the window. Derek Morgan was suspiciously close to Reid's face when he spoke the next few words: "Reid?"

At this Reid located his missing tongue, "Ah, no I'm fine." To Morgan's unbelieving stare, he reassured both the elder male and those eavesdropping on the conversation.

"I'm just tired."