#// coloring the dark scenes is the bane of my existence BUT this mother-son moment had to be giffed for them

[ofmoonlitmagic]

❛ don’t you know what you mean to me? ❜ ( Keelin )

&. 𝐯𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬.

Asking Billie not to say anything only worked if he could lie well to his mother. He couldn't. "It wasn't that bad," he told her as she found him sitting in their kitchen. At some point past midnight, he didn't know the time for sure, but he couldn't sleep. He needed to sit for a while, think. Think of something, anything, that could help move their position forward. How did they get five steps ahead? Or did they need to be ten?

"Billie said she's gonna find another solution," he finally decided to go with honesty, "I haven't changed my mind, Momma, I won't take it. I don't want all of you worrying about me either, we've got bigger things to figure out than all my shit."

❛ don’t you know what you mean to me? ❜

Even seven years later, Briggs still did everything he could to not become a problem for his moms, as though he forgot this was not a home made of eggshells to walk gently upon. "Yeah," he murmured, "you remind me every day."