Casey narrowed his eyes and frowned. Right. The sewers.
Now he felt like a jerk. He hadn't meant to scare Bones like that, not after he'd been stuck for so long down there with those creatures. A bubble of guilt rose in his throat and he couldn't swallow it down.
"Dude...Bones, I'm-"
And then Rose said the dumbest possible thing imaginable under the circumstances and the bubble popped, replaced by the seizing of his heart. When you don't ever get in trouble, you don't learn how to navigate it. Rose had violated the biggest rule of sneaking out: You NEVER admitted fault. When you came home after curfew looking like you'd eaten total shit, which Casey had, it was just an act of fate. An accident. Nobody did anything wrong, it just happened.
He cleared his throat and swiped his hand across his neck a few times, but Rose couldn't be stopped. As happy as Casey was not to have to talk about the plate holding his skull together...this was going to get ugly.
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Now he felt like a jerk. He hadn't meant to scare Bones like that, not after he'd been stuck for so long down there with those creatures. A bubble of guilt rose in his throat and he couldn't swallow it down.
"Dude...Bones, I'm-"
And then Rose said the dumbest possible thing imaginable under the circumstances and the bubble popped, replaced by the seizing of his heart. When you don't ever get in trouble, you don't learn how to navigate it. Rose had violated the biggest rule of sneaking out: You NEVER admitted fault. When you came home after curfew looking like you'd eaten total shit, which Casey had, it was just an act of fate. An accident. Nobody did anything wrong, it just happened.
He cleared his throat and swiped his hand across his neck a few times, but Rose couldn't be stopped. As happy as Casey was not to have to talk about the plate holding his skull together...this was going to get ugly.