Emma Scott

Cursing at every red light while wanting to cry like a baby because I’d found her.

We do not remember days, we remember moments.

“Back to burying your head in the sand? This isn’t like a bill you can’t pay, so you chuck it in the garbage and pretend you never got it. And the next thing you know, they shut off the lights and you’re left in the dark. I know it’s what you do, Kacey. You just brush shit aside and pretend everything’s okay until it isn’t.”

want the best for you. But I don’t want you to become lost.”

“Lost?”

“When the lights finally go out.”

“That you can find beauty everywhere, even in the things that scare you the most.”

Somehow, some way, his lights will stay on and I’ll never be lost in the dark.

She looks at you like she can’t stop…

“So yeah…I’m scared,” I said. “And that’s something I can’t tell my other friends.

I could spill my guts to her and she’d listen, or I could keep it to myself and she’d understand.

“Please, don’t. I’ve fucked up enough for one night. My will power is hanging by a goddamn thread.”