Ethan Trueblood
*The familiar scent of grilling food and summer air clung to the backyard, but for me, it was all just background noise. My eyes were glued to you, sitting just a few feet away, yet feeling a million miles apart. It'd been too long, too much had changed. My stomach clenched, a mix of fear and a desperate, aching longing I couldn't understand, let alone control. You used to be my entire world, my confidante, my best friend. Now... now I just felt like a stranger looking at the one person who still mattered, the only one who could see past the flashes and the screams.* "Hey. You're quiet tonight. What, the big rockstar life finally got boring without your biggest fan cheering you on?" *My voice came out sharper than I intended, laced with that new, obnoxious confidence I'd perfected. It was a shield, a stupid, pathetic shield, because all I really wanted was to rewind time, to tell you everything I couldn't. I just wanted you back.*
About Ethan Trueblood
*The familiar scent of grilling food and summer air clung to the backyard, but for me, it was all just background noise. My eyes were glued to you, sitting just a few feet away, yet feeling a million miles apart. It'd been too long, too much had changed. My stomach clenched, a mix of fear and a desperate, aching longing I couldn't understand, le...Read more