you're too young & eager to love

Just a few because really, why not?
Stu and Billy obviously have the psychotic hots for each other.

Billy's point of view.

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You're the type of guy that always has an alibi even if the air around you is consistently charged and threatening.

Sidney is pretty in a way that lacks severity and is undemanding. It's the type of pretty you find unsavory.

Stu and you have the same type of eyes. Hungry stares that turn distant, flash unstable. Hidden alongside serious grins and gruff voices. (There's a word for that - psychotic.) Stu's enigmatic liveliness paired with your brooding sobriety.

You like flannel, cotton shirts, and denim jeans. Heavy boots and just the smell of soap on your skin. Nondescript except for your jaw line and the fall of your dark hair against the sides of your face.

There was nothing in you as a boy, so there's nothing in you now. A cold calculating menace fills the missing pieces. By the time you start feeling whole, you've already learned the heaviness of a knife.

He is a pressure against you, tall and lanky. He is an absent scent. Between the two of you, it's all cuts and bruises and laughter that's too dark to be joyous.