he didn’t know why he was shouting at you. he didn’t know why he could feel warm tears flowing down his face. he didn’t know why any of it was happening.

he’d gone from smiling and laughing with you to… to being reduced to this.

and he still didn’t know why. maybe it was because you were reminding him of his mom. not that he didn’t love her. he loved her more than anything in the world.

but that might’ve been the problem.

you were too much like her, and that scared him.

he’d fall too deep into your touch and how you showed him care, and then it’d take time back to when his mom was alive. and that made him angry. angry that she wasn’t still alive. he felt guilty, so he took it out on you. and he didn’t mean to…