#088 – He
4 a.m.
100 Words
He found her number on the bathroom wall, he says. Some pizza joint down the street from his house. But he wasn't calling her for a good time. He'd only called to "talk."
It occurred to Alex that she should've yelled at him until his ears bled (it was fucking four in the morning!), but instead, she found herself spilling her story to a stranger who said he habitually called numbers on bathroom walls because he's "lost"—a metaphor for his existential existence.
She talked about Paige mostly, and when she finished, he said she was lost just like him.
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Author's Notes: Male character mentioned in this drabble comes from an original story I'm writing. He just randomly decided to drop into one of my drabbles.