"Dude," Steve Says, Pressing On His Eyes Because He Feels Like He's About To Cry. "What The Fuck."

Wh-whats going on??????

What's even scarier is it working.

influencers actively trying to convince young women to aspire to unemployment and servitude is literally so sinister

One time when Steve was a kid, he wanted some older kids at the park to think he was cool so he asked them what he had to do to prove he was.

They told him only cool kids can win a fight and if he wants to hang out with them, he has to beat someone up. They even point out a whimpy looking kid for him to fight.

Steve doesn’t want to do that but his dad says being cool is like, super important so he has to. He goes up to the kid looking at ants on the sidewalk and tells him, “Hi, I’m Steve. I have to beat you up so I can be friends with those guys.”

“I’m Eddie,” the boy says, giving the hand Steve stuck out to shake an amused look. “I don’t want to get beat up, no thanks.”

Steve sighs.

That’s gonna be a problem. Eddie said no.

Steve runs his hand into his already messy hair and then asks, “What if I hit you? Just once.”

“That’s fair,” Eddie nods after some consideration. He shakes the ants off his hand and then stands up. “Okay. We can do one hit.”

Steve’s never hit anybody before but he can feel the older kids’ eyes on him so he squeezes his eyes shut and swings. His swing is too wide and he clips Eddie in the ear.

He doesn’t even have time to get his bearings before a hand strikes out and Eddie punch’s him in the nose. Steve staggers but Eddie grins at him like they’re having fun, “One hit, right? Want to go again?”

Steve has never been hit by anybody before and he wasn’t planning on being hit today.

He promptly burst into tears.

This memory is burnt into Eddie’s brain for the oddity of it all and the confusion he felt when Steve started crying. He was the one that suggested they hit each other???

Meanwhile, Steve only really remembers the story his babysitter repeatedly told his parents about how a big kid punched him unprovoked, that she had been watching but not close enough to prevent it, and that he wasn’t allowed to go to that park anymore.

I just befreind them, stare at them, engage with their hobbies and that seems to do the trick.

A good relationship is (usually) built on an existing freindship. (There's always outliers or exceptions though & those people are valid too)

So anyways, just go make freinds and see what happens!

LEMME FLEX one more time abt the dave guy i was standing in the lunch line and he was pushing through all the people and got right up behind me like litterally less than an inch and i could feel his body heat. i rlly hope he cant tell that i've lowk been flirting with him a lil bit - 🍥

How do you people flirt like I’m sitting here reading silently with my headphones on blasting music and hoping they catch my drift when I don’t look up at them

I love movies where the plot takes place in less than a day. It’s like. What if these people were experiencing the worst 8 hours of the entire lives and you got to see the highlight reel?

I like to think that during Buck’s first year at the 118, he was enthusiastically taking any shift he could because he loves being a firefighter and his real life is lonely.

Then one day, he comes into work and Bobby is just like, come with me. They get in Bobby’s car and he drops Buck off at his house, “If you keep going like this, you’re going to burn out. Take the time.”

And then a few hours later, the 118 comes back from a call and Buck is in the loft. Making a grilled cheese.

Bobby gives him a look like, what the hell. Buck’s eyes go wide and he asks genuinely, “You meant all day?”

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Does she mean Monticello GA?

@/mothercain. “3 years ago today, with kelsey in the old abandoned mansion on main street in monticello” twitter, 23 sept 2021.

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