Previous // Next
Ivan: Well, how’d y’think it makes me feel when the only thing I can get outta you for months is that you’re bored. Is it not enough-.. am I not enough?
[Bruno sighed heavily and shook his head with frustration; Ivan just wasn’t getting it]
Bruno: Why do you always make everything about yourself? It’s not about how you feel.
Ivan: I ain’t sayin’ it is!
Bruno: You wanted to know what was wrong-.. but I knew you wouldn’t like the answer, so I kept it to myself.
Bruno: I just feel empty and alone, no matter who I’m with or what I’m doing, it’s always the same. I’ve felt like that for as long as I can remember, even when I was a child. Like if I disappeared one day, no one would really care-.. you’d think so at first, but after a month or two it’d be as though I never existed.
Ivan: That ain’t true at all…
Bruno: Maybe, maybe not, but that’s how I feel regardless.
Ivan: Maybe y’oughta get yourself on somethin’, like-…
Bruno: Antidepressants don’t help, therapy doesn’t help-.. drugs, alcohol, none of it changes anything. I don’t think I know how to exist in this life; not happily, anyway.
Ivan: Don’t say that! Y’just need a purpose or somethin’, I dunno…
[Bruno shrugged dismissively; Ivan would never understand. How could Mr. Passionate ever make sense of the bleak void that enveloped his core, that inherently made him who he was?]
Bruno: Probably.
[Ugh, another deep and twisting adult conversation that made Robin’s head spin. He wondered if this was all grown-ups did; get too busy or stubborn to deal with each other and their bullshit until it all became too much, then take a vacation, relax and let it all out only to repeat the same ridiculous cycle as soon as they got home]
Ivan: Y’know I love ya, right? We’ll figure somethin’ out.
Bruno: I know, but I wouldn’t blame you if you didn’t want to figure-…
Ivan: What the fuck, B? I don’t exactly wanna give u-…
[A twig snapped; just as Robin had decided to turn around too-.. bollocks]
Ivan: Hey, bud.
Bruno: What’re you doing here?
[Robin knew that Bruno was feeling extra tense right now, but as nice as he could be, he still felt a little wary of him. He’d seen far too much of his checkered past, and Robin could tell he didn’t carry quite the same guilt as his father or Ivan did-.. nor was he as innocent as them. If you knew too much, which he most certainly did, Bruno was a scary man]
Robin: I was just e-exploring.
Bruno: It’s a bit late for that, you should be in bed.
Ivan: Aye, go on.. we can explore in the mornin’.
Ivan: Y’didn’t have t’scare the poor lad.
Bruno: He shouldn’t be eavesdropping then.
Ivan: Kids are just fuckin’ nosy, B.. simmer down.
117 notes
·
View notes