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✉️ — delivery.

[hymen]

[ waiting outside his door, post thunderbolts retreat: a sealed letter in a pale blue envelope. ]

Bobby,

I keep wanting to talk to you like everything’s normal. Like everything hasn’t changed. Like we used to, in the middle of the night when neither of us could sleep. But everything’s different now, and I can’t pretend that it’s not no matter how much I want to resist that truth.

I’m sorry. Not just for what happened that day, but for all of it. All the times I hurt you. All the times I just did what I wanted. I’m sorry for all the crazy things that I said, the things about your dad and everything else. I’m sorry I made you say that you forgive me. I should have known better. I do know better.

I’m sorry you asked to spend time together in the daylight, and I never gave you that.

I’m only asking you for one thing, and that’s to not blame yourself for any of it. It was me. I pushed you like I always do. I should have known how to treat you, and if not that, I should have known the best thing for you could never have been me.

There are a lot of good people here. I’m glad you found them. I doubt you had plans for it, but I don’t think it’s a good idea for us to see each other anymore. I want to do the right thing. I don’t want to hurt you anymore.

I’m actually asking for two things. Finish reading Hamlet.

Embry

✉️ — RETURN TO SENDER.

[sensive]

[ within a day, one of the maids returns the letter to embry, alongside his copy of hamlet and the first letter he wrote, which has been torn in half.

on the envelope: ]

RETURN TO ASSHOLE
Write a book next time you want to pretend you give a shit about somebody.