#like lately 2-3k words into a fic my brain has been going NOPE ABANDON SHIP

[carry-the-sky]

tagged by the lovely @imaginejolls for a wip wednesday sunday! i've started and abandoned approximately 84 hellcheer fics at this point, but here's a snippet from one that feels like it miiiight be going somewhere:

She can’t look at him. God, she— she really just said that, out loud and everything. If she squints she can almost see the words, trailing from her lips like smoke. She wants to suck them back into her lungs. Choke on them. 

“Um,” she squeaks out instead. “Sorry. That— that was a weird thing to say.”

Eddie shrugs, but he’s watching her the same way he did in the woods, like if he looks hard enough he’ll be able to figure her out. Like she’s a big mystery, or something, which stirs up something bright and giddy behind her ribs. Chrissy doesn’t feel mysterious, with her nice house and her nuclear family and her All-American boyfriend, but she doesn’t exactly feel normal, either. Normal girls probably don’t think their house is trying to eat them. 

Eddie passes her the joint, then flops back against the couch and jerks both thumbs at himself. “Big fan of weird, Chrissy. One might even say I’m a connoisseur of the stuff.” 

tagging!! @majicmarker, @agentmmayy, @ninzied, @hangon-silvergirl, @edourado, @heartonfirewrites, @pynkhues, @ejunkiet, @evilbunnyking and anyone else who wants to play :)