Page 60 of Septembers

I have all the strings.

Every string theo

All of them.

you’re drunk

That is indeed the case.

hydrate please

I shal do as my lieg commands.

Leigee

Leeege

Dammit

i think ur trying for liege

You’re so smmart.

Do you think of me?

now and then

Now amd then when?

when I see one of your stickers on a strangers laptop

And?

when I eat kimchi stew

when I check the time with the watch you gave me

when i drink from the learning is a hoot mug

when Im singing horribly in the shower

so every day?

every day

I th8nk of you every minute

its not a competition

Every second.

go to bed

It was too early in the morning for Theo’s heart to be raging this hard. He knew none of this meant anything. Dae was drunk and rambling. Nonsensical. Trying to find meaning in any of these texts was like trying to buy a house with fool’s gold. But still, hearing that Dae missed him was a beautiful thrill. He knew it, Dae had said it before, but weren’t people the most honest when their inhibitions were down?

Dae missed him. Dae loved him (or, lobed him, but that was close enough). Dae thought about him. He shouldn’t have been as happy as he was to read those words, but they still lit up his soul like a million firecrackers against a dark sky.

He could tell these texts were going to become his new obsession, so he threw his phone down on the bed.