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A/N: It's not S&S. It's more like…a justification of the brief Scott/Juliette in the beginning of the series. Because they were together for a short while…YOU CANNOT DENY IT. And it is a drabble as well as an experiment. Well, enjoy :)
Touch
Scott takes no comfort in words – he's learned from experience to distrust them. People told him before that he had a "perfect life," but those words rang false, so much that it hurt.
He hardly speaks to Juliette, even though they're supposed to be "dating." They are called a "couple" (some would say the perfect couple; the football star and the prom queen, how wonderful) and it is known that they are "seeing each other." "Going out," even though you could hardly call it that; there isn't anywhere to go in Horizon, really. Words fail to imply or describe the human connection – they miss the point entirely. They fall short – they mislead – they betray. Words have done Scott no good; they are just as empty when Juliette says, "I love you" as when he told himself months ago, "Everything will be okay."
He can't bring himself to love her like that, but he can't bring himself to leave her just yet. It's simple: he does not want to be lonely. He does not want to be alone. You could say that they have a connection – a most unfortunate connection, but it's there; the kind that forms when bad things happen to people who don't deserve them. The feeling that you're not alone – a desperate human touch. Like groping for someone's hand in the darkness, afraid. It's something that is more meaningful than words.
How ironic, that an unwanted touch nearly destroyed him; yet now, a touch – not necessarily unwanted – is the one thing that he yearns for above all things.