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“Ah, John. There you are.”
His mother’s tone is the rubber band snap of a corporate manager closing a deal, and she barely throws him a glance as she adjusts the brooch on her cardigan, eyes glued instead to her own reflection. John half leans against the doorway, so many years of being forbidden from entering his parents’ room keeping him glued to the threshold.
“Are you ready for this evening?”
A gala. A real, extravagant gala with gallons of expensive alcohol that John can't drink with his meds, and hundreds of interrogative faces that scrunch in pity whenever he catches them staring.
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A week after John's released from the hospital, his parents throw a ball.
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07 Feb 2026
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The index finger at his sternum felt like the muzzle of a gun. Whitaker’ heart jumped further up his throat. He could feel his heartbeat burning on his tongue.
“Do you just do whatever people tell you?”
Whitaker fucks up. Then Robby fucks up worse.Bookmarked by anulumos
04 Feb 2026
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"Whatever this was, it wasn’t an emergency." - Michael Robinavitch, having a medical emergency.
"This fucking guy." - Jack Abbot, leaving his shift to go get him.
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02 Feb 2026
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“Sometimes I talk to Robby, and I understand him more than I understand myself,” Samira said.
She felt Jack nod. “That doesn’t surprise me,” he said, his voice muffled against her shirt.
“And then sometimes I don’t.”
“That doesn’t surprise me either.” Samira could tell he was smiling. “You two are a lot alike.”
“Is that why you’re with me?” she asked.
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24 Jan 2026
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The first time Samira calls him, it's an accident.
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23 Jan 2026