Eepy Inbox Call . Like This For Gregory To Be Tossed In Your Ask :)

eepy inbox call …. like this for gregory to be tossed in your ask :)

I AM NOT ME.

oh. this is bad news.

MISCELLANEOUS SENTENCE PROMPTS*  collection #12

★ — It wasn't like he'd been in town for a long time. Was just supposed to go to the cafe on the corner ( with Michael's knowledge, thank you very much ) to get a hot chocolate and come back, enough to keep him from going stir crazy with nowhere to go between their little apartment and school.

But then he saw the newspaper, sitting by the door.

The very same paper thats currently sitting on their coffee table in front of Michael ( unceremoniously thrown down in front of him with an accompanying panicked look ), with a bold lettered headline that reads ' MISSING CHILDREN ACROSS HURRICANE '. Among the crowd of nine children present on the front page is Gregory's face, crystal clear, deemed the latest in the string of disappearances. Which had almost been true, but definitely wasn't now.

Rather than responding normally — coherently —, Gregory sinks to his knees with an unnecessarily loud whine. He pulls his limbs into a tight ball, resting his forehead atop his knees ( almost as if if he were to just close his eyes long enough, the offending newspaper will disappear from existence like a bad dream ). And then because that isn't nearly dramatic enough, he just kinda ... flops onto his side. On the floor. Laying there. Like he's dying. Another whine, this one not as loud but certainly just as over the top in tone.

"Everything's bad news all of the time."

sometimes I’m like yeah I worked with kids I know how kids can act and then I remember I worked with kids while I was in the literal circus and the ten year old I was closest to walked a tightrope and rode a unicycle while juggling and is maybe an outlier in ten year old behavior

★ — However kind the hand they may extend, Gregory can't help but feel out of place with the family he's found himself pulled into ; they're the kind of thing that's beautiful from a distance, but delicate, an antique glass set teetering on the edge of a table, a breath away from crumbling to sharp pieces. And he doesn't match. Not when he's already all sharp edges, barely held together ( barely worth considering — everyone seems to think they can fix him until they realize he's far more trouble than he's worth ). Elizabeth's question is .... a bit unsettling, sure, but it's far from the first time he's been asked that. It's long sense stopped feeling like an open wound, even if it still aches from time to time.

"Dunno about my dad — I never met him. I don't think my mom talked to him. But .... she — uh, my mom, I mean — she died. It's been a few years."

@braveburned   \   gregory   :   asked for elizabeth !

she  remembers  when  she  was  that  young  ,  that  impressionable  .  it's  when  her  innocence  was  taken  .  though  she's  not  as  jaded  as  gregory  .  the  boy  who  looks  upon  the  world  &*  sees  everything  it  has  to  offer  &*  spits  in  it's  face  because  it's  offered  to  everyone  but  him.  even  if  michael  &*  her  aren't  on  amazing  terms  ,  she  &*  her  mother  are  .  letting  her  get  close  to  the  boy  .  thinking  of  him  as  a  younger  brother  ,  even  if  she  wouldn't  say  it  out  loud  .  or  well  ,  closer  .  ‘  where's  your  mom  &*  dad anyway  ?  ’  something  she  was  advised  not  to  ask  ever  ,  but  this  was  elizabeth  .  the  princess  of  the  house  who  was  spoiled  to  no  end  thanks to her father when he was around .  it  isn't  as  though  she  is  looking  to  be  rude  .  just  making  conversation  . she thinks not of the consequences that could come from her question .

𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐄 𝐕𝐒. 𝐌𝐔𝐍

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