Sure it does. But those things go away. If this were something the city did or whoever's responsible for the things that happen, it would have lasted weeks. That? That I would have been able to live with. Even if it then provided a place to start from. But I've looked over those weeks forwards, backwards, and sideways.
The big things tend to happen at the same time. Like the beach. Many people experiencing roughly the same thing at the same time. I've been on both sides of that. Looking at it from the inside and the outside. It lasted a couple of weeks and then I was back to normal and horrified. And maybe some of the things I said, I actually meant, but I was generally back to my usual status quo. Everything else, the temporary stuff, is usually only a matter of hours. Maybe a night at most.
This has been going on for months. So unless it's something new and terrifying, it's all them. And yes, it was on Elijah because he was the one with the committment. But Kyle should have stepped back when he realized what was going on. Given Hayley and Elijah time to work it out.
I don't know. I mean, I believe in love at first sight, but not the way it went down. There was something that just seemed off about the suddenness of it.
[ Of course he believed in it. He'd lived it. Maybe that day at Guerin's truck hadn't been the first time they'd seen each other, but they hadn't really interacted in any meaningful way before that. He'd always just been Max and Isobel's friend.
Which, of course, brings him to the next thing. And it takes him a minute to respond. ]
Ten years, Guerin. I tried to forget you for ten years and the minute I'm back in town, it's like those ten years never happened. If that's not a thing, I don't know what is.
Yeah. It was a thing, for me. I wasn't with anyone serious in ten years, and we just picked back up. I know.
Wasn't enough, though.
[ It wasn't enough to make Alex stay at home, and it hadn't been enough to stop him falling in love with someone else here. ]
Maybe it wasn't for them, either. I don't know, I don't know either of them well enough. Maybe it's better that she doesn't remember. You think she's okay?
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Date: 2020-09-22 06:05 pm (UTC)The big things tend to happen at the same time. Like the beach. Many people experiencing roughly the same thing at the same time. I've been on both sides of that. Looking at it from the inside and the outside. It lasted a couple of weeks and then I was back to normal and horrified. And maybe some of the things I said, I actually meant, but I was generally back to my usual status quo. Everything else, the temporary stuff, is usually only a matter of hours. Maybe a night at most.
This has been going on for months. So unless it's something new and terrifying, it's all them. And yes, it was on Elijah because he was the one with the committment. But Kyle should have stepped back when he realized what was going on. Given Hayley and Elijah time to work it out.
I don't know. I mean, I believe in love at first sight, but not the way it went down. There was something that just seemed off about the suddenness of it.
[ Of course he believed in it. He'd lived it. Maybe that day at Guerin's truck hadn't been the first time they'd seen each other, but they hadn't really interacted in any meaningful way before that. He'd always just been Max and Isobel's friend.
Which, of course, brings him to the next thing. And it takes him a minute to respond. ]
Ten years, Guerin. I tried to forget you for ten years and the minute I'm back in town, it's like those ten years never happened. If that's not a thing, I don't know what is.
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Date: 2020-09-30 02:15 am (UTC)Wasn't enough, though.
[ It wasn't enough to make Alex stay at home, and it hadn't been enough to stop him falling in love with someone else here. ]
Maybe it wasn't for them, either. I don't know, I don't know either of them well enough. Maybe it's better that she doesn't remember. You think she's okay?