#and similarly roier’s own isolation and loneliness wouldn’t have hit him so hard

[apollos-boyfriend]

parrot duo are so. ough. squeezes them. jaiden moved away to bobby fields because she didn’t think roier needed her anymore. they only lived together for because of bobby. roier had plenty of friends—a husband now, too—so there was no use for her anymore. jaiden never called that house theirs, just roier’s, because she always felt like she was intruding. she couldn’t see her own importance, and roier was too deep in grief to correct her. so she left.

meanwhile, roier feels so alone. he only has cellbit, at the end of the day. jaiden has her own life, her own friends. she moved away, and he can respect that, because he’s not going to fight for a friendship. if jaiden wants to move, if she wants her own space, that’s her decision. he’s not going to try to convince her otherwise. she didn’t need him so constantly in her life. her moving away was proof enough.

and they’re both so wrong. roier never saw jaiden as a burden. that house was always theirs. everything in it was meant for them both. roier wanted to be a family with her more than anything else. and jaiden never saw roier as anything but her closest partner. bobby fields is in sets of three, after all, because there’s no perfect happiness without roier. neither of them meant to turn their back to each other. they are missing something they could only find in each other, but that piece is long gone now. they can’t go back to what they once had. they don’t even think the other wants to. and they couldn’t be more wrong