Thank you so much for all the reviews, I'm very happy to know that you guys are still enjoying this! Please do keep them coming, and I'd love it if you had the time to check out 'This Is Not The Sound' too :)
I found out this morning that I passed my exams, so to celebrate I'm being cruel to Rodney. It's what I do ;)
THE EYE - BROKEN
Is there anybody out there who
Is lost, and hurt, and lonely too?
~ Coldplay, 'Square One'
He hid it well.
Held himself painfully taut with fakely cheerful words and a hastily-applied bandage.
Until his door slid shut. And he slid to the floor as clockwork ran down, puppet-strings snapped, the all-consuming focus on staying together splintered apart; and left him with nothing. Except his accusing thoughts.
His arm burned and he pulled away bandage, jacket, hissing as new-formed scab over the deep knife wounds were ripped away with them, bright red blood welling up and over his pale skin, an outward badge of inward shame at having broken so easily, so quickly.
At failing, so completely.
