javier ramos .

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text message to : maxine . 📲 : save me maxine

text message to : maxine . 📲 : i wish i was close enough

text message to : @dramaempath . 📲 : save me from my father.

did you microwave it.

wouldn't be a present, then.

uh huh. where's mine?

* @dramaempath ;

everyone's getting labubus except me. i see.

“ you sound like that's a bad thing. ” all but flopping backwards onto her bed, moving a textbook from beside his head.

“ why wouldn't i? we're friends, right? ” anything to hide away from his dad, but he kept that part quiet.

climbing up into @dramaempath's room ten minutes later, sliding in head first.

text message to : maxine . 📲 : give me ten minutes 📲 : what're we doing?

text message to : maxine . 📲 : i don't think so?? 📲 : hi

what is wrong with you.

max ?!

“ it is. four hours. ” he remembers the journey here, checking the map on his phone every twenty minutes until they'd arrived in wellsbury. “ it's just for the summer though, or if i piss him off enough for him to drive me back early. ”

fahey.xn--6ii TIME OUT

“ new york. ” he says flatly; shuddering at the thought of living there again, even if only for the summer. “ i lived there before. ” he adds, head turning to look at her.