Flashing Lights
“Hey what’s up with you bro?”
Concernedly, he asked of me. Nothing left my mouth.
He asked again, because he always was one to keep trying no matter what. Unlike myself.
“You better tell me what’s on your mind bro.”
Nothing. It wasn’t even about trying. I couldn’t.
He looked at me for a long time. For almost a quarter of a minute. 11ish seconds. 11000ish milliseconds. 11000000 microseconds. He became sadder by every microsecond. Why was he sad. Sadder than I could even try to be.
He held me at the last second. I just closed my eyes. Risers in the background, piercing my ears, smoke in my eyes. Tears welled up from the irritation or something else.
He tried again. Asked me what’s wrong.
I tried, really hard. Hardest ever to try. Tried for the first time in my life. And I said, right before I could hear the drop fall onto my world…
“life’s a beach.”
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