So, I was looking back through your journal trying to find this so I could finally leave a comment, and god, I can't believe you posted it in May. Sheesh, time goes so fast. But that never changes, I guess. And I'm always late. That never changes either XD
This is so completely unlike I've ever read of yours that I was rather taken aback at first, but in a good way. It's sooooo sad, and my heart just broke for Will, so many times. So desperate to be included, and to find that really special, intense friendship, and then he gets so much more, only to have it all snatched away, through no fault of his own. I've had brushes with people who have the sort of intense relationship that Georgie and Skandar have here and one thing I've learned it that, if you get emotionally involved in any way, you just end up getting completely crushed. So the ending, while tragic and heart-breaking, rang completely true to me, and I'm glad that you didn't succumb to the temptation to make it a happy one (well, part of me wanted happy endings and fluffy bunnies all round, but the way it is here just worked so much better with the story and the personalities involved.
Ben was wonderful, too, trying so hard to look out for them all, and rather out of his depth, but trying all the harder for it.
I think my favourite passage in the whole story is the one that goes:- "Will's heart sinks, but, sitting on the sofa between the two of them watching a movie, having popcorn and red wine for breakfast, he finds that he can wait. They are warm and soft and sleepy like cats, curled against him at either side, and he is wired, awake with want, but willing to simply hold them close for now."
It's his last perfect moment, and it's all the more poignant because it all falls apart so quickly, and so soon after. It's a little while since I read this now but I went straight back to that, it just sums it all up somehow.
I like to think that there'll be a reunion sometime and Skandar and Georgie will get over themselves enough to realise what they've done and how unjustly they've acted. It might take a while though!
As ever, you write beautifully and I'm so glad that I finally found the time to read this :)
How are you? It's been a while, I hope everything's going well :) ♥ ♥ ♥
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Date: 2011-10-23 07:15 pm (UTC)So, I was looking back through your journal trying to find this so I could finally leave a comment, and god, I can't believe you posted it in May. Sheesh, time goes so fast. But that never changes, I guess. And I'm always late. That never changes either XD
This is so completely unlike I've ever read of yours that I was rather taken aback at first, but in a good way. It's sooooo sad, and my heart just broke for Will, so many times. So desperate to be included, and to find that really special, intense friendship, and then he gets so much more, only to have it all snatched away, through no fault of his own.
I've had brushes with people who have the sort of intense relationship that Georgie and Skandar have here and one thing I've learned it that, if you get emotionally involved in any way, you just end up getting completely crushed.
So the ending, while tragic and heart-breaking, rang completely true to me, and I'm glad that you didn't succumb to the temptation to make it a happy one (well, part of me wanted happy endings and fluffy bunnies all round, but the way it is here just worked so much better with the story and the personalities involved.
Ben was wonderful, too, trying so hard to look out for them all, and rather out of his depth, but trying all the harder for it.
I think my favourite passage in the whole story is the one that goes:-
"Will's heart sinks, but, sitting on the sofa between the two of them watching a movie, having popcorn and red wine for breakfast, he finds that he can wait. They are warm and soft and sleepy like cats, curled against him at either side, and he is wired, awake with want, but willing to simply hold them close for now."
It's his last perfect moment, and it's all the more poignant because it all falls apart so quickly, and so soon after. It's a little while since I read this now but I went straight back to that, it just sums it all up somehow.
I like to think that there'll be a reunion sometime and Skandar and Georgie will get over themselves enough to realise what they've done and how unjustly they've acted. It might take a while though!
As ever, you write beautifully and I'm so glad that I finally found the time to read this :)
How are you? It's been a while, I hope everything's going well :)
♥ ♥ ♥