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Tony S.

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  1. Tony S.

    Nothing Happened

    Nick woke late Saturday morning with his phone beneath the pillow and the dull, swollen ache that followed a night of crying. For several seconds, he remained still beneath the blanket, caught in that brief, merciful space before memory returned. Pale sunlight pressed through the curtains, laying a narrow stripe across the opposite wall. Somewhere downstairs, a cabinet door closed, followed by the soft murmur of his parents talking in the kitchen. Everything around him felt ordinary enough
  2. Let's find out soon!
  3. Yeah he may have. Or maybe it's just with Nick because he is confused and scared of his own feelings. Time will tell!
  4. Not getting Nick off pisses me off too!
  5. Good theory! Let's wait and see how it turns out.
  6. Crying, obviously 😂
  7. Let's cross our fingers. At least Kit used to say that "Luke isn't a bad guy."
  8. You're so generous with Luke. I like it!
  9. We will see how it rolls out soon. Nick is shy but pretty strong so I hope he's okay.
  10. It's a hard lesson indeed.
  11. Tony S.

    Seasons

    Life settled into a rhythm so gradually that neither of us noticed it happening. At first, every week seemed to bring something new. Another piece of furniture from a thrift store. Another kitchen utensil we'd forgotten we needed until the moment we reached for it. A lamp for the living room. Curtains that actually fit the bedroom windows. Shelves for my growing collection of textbooks. Every payday, we'd look around the apartment and decide what we could afford to improve next. None o
  12. The move took most of Saturday. Looking back, I couldn't have told you exactly how many trips we made between the barracks and the apartment, or who carried which box, or how Miguel somehow managed to complain through every single load without ever actually slowing down. I only remembered flashes of the day: Jamal shaking his head as Miguel insisted a couch was heavier because nobody had fed him lunch, Owen quietly disappearing downstairs before returning with another armful of boxes, Eric
  13. Saturday, October 31, 2026 The clock struck midnight, and somewhere beneath Blackthorn Cabin, something began to move. Ryan had been watching the hands approach twelve for several minutes, yet the first chime still made him flinch. Beside him, Caleb sat with one leg tucked beneath him, his fingers loosely intertwined with Ryan's. Neither had spoken since the voice beneath the floorboards announced that it had been waiting a very long time. The fire had burned down to a bed of glowing e
  14. Sunny is the star of the show!
  15. Their friends are really protective indeed.
  16. Thank you as always!
  17. Time will tell!
  18. Jealousy is a b*tch, yeah.
  19. By Monday afternoon, Nick had become exhausted from trying to look normal. He had spent the entire day pretending that nothing had happened that morning. Nothing important, anyway. He had walked into Algebra II with Kit’s smile still caught painfully in his mind—the same smile he had seen near the lockers while a pretty girl held on to Kit’s arm as though she belonged there—and then Luke had noticed something was wrong almost immediately. Luke had touched Nick’s hand beneath the desk, only
  20. Friday, October 30, 2026 The telephone continued ringing. Ryan stood in the doorway of his bedroom, staring across the dimly lit hallway toward the staircase. The sound came from the kitchen below, sharp and insistent, each ring followed by a brief mechanical rattle that seemed to carry through the entire cabin. It was the sort of noise he remembered from his grandparents' house when he was little, back when telephones were attached to walls and nobody could ignore a call simply by tur
  21. Thursday, October 29, 2026 Ryan had never been particularly afraid of the dark. As a child, he'd occasionally imagined things lurking beneath his bed or hiding inside the closet, but those fears had disappeared long before he reached adolescence. He'd grown up understanding that unfamiliar sounds usually had ordinary explanations, and that the shadows taking strange shapes on his bedroom wall were simply the result of passing headlights or branches moving outside the window. Even when
  22. Tony S.

    Roommates

    For a few seconds, all I heard was the steady hum of the tires against the pavement. I wasn't surprised Randy had thought about moving off base. Plenty of Corporals did once they had enough time in the fleet. Better apartments. More privacy. Fewer inspections. If you could afford it, there weren't many downsides. But that wasn't what had caught me off guard. It was the last part. Would you want to be my roommate? I looked over at him. He still hadn't turned his head
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