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Robby was going through withdrawal.
Most people think that you need to be hooked on alcohol or drugs to experience withdrawal, but that wasn’t true.
Because Robby was experiencing it and he sure as hell never touched alcohol or drugs in his life, other than to flush his mom’s stash down the toilet to keep her from overdosing.
It’s always described as a desperate need for something so much so that there are physical symptoms. And Robby had a desperate need that he wasn’t fulfilling that caused physical symptoms, but they weren’t your traditional physical symptoms.
His skin just tingled. A lot. All the time. To the point where he almost wanted to cut it all off.
That was what he wanted to do. Cut himself. Maybe not deep, not deep enough to kill him at least, but deep enough to bleed.
But he couldn’t because that would disappoint people. That would worry people. And he didn’t want that, so he didn’t cut.
No matter how much he wanted to.