Carla ran into Joey out front, she had been looking for him.
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"Hey Joey, there you are." Carla said, beaming.
"Hey Carla, what's up?" Joey asks.
"I've been looking for you." She explains, "you've been absent lately, is something wrong?"
He took a deep breath. "I owe you an apology."
"For what?"
"Let's sit a moment and talk."
They both sat on the front steps, turning to face one another.
"Go ahead Joey, what is it?"
"I've been overwhelmed and listening to the wrong voices."
"I often do that too."
"No I mean......" He took a deep sigh, hanging his head. "I'm trying to stay guarded but Hayden always has a way of getting into my head."
"Into mine as well."
"Really?!" Joey asked, looking up at her surprised.
"Absolutely."
"How do you cope?"
"You just.....do. I don't know if that's good advice but over time I guess it gets easier, also to remind myself he's just out to get me....to fuck with my mind."
"Wow, I had no idea."
"Yup." She curled in her lips, feeling a tad ashamed of all she let him do mentally.
"Well, I guess we both struggling. We can get through this together."
"You think so?"
"I do." He said, nodding and shooting her a warm smile for reassurance.
"So, we should catch up a bit....I miss us talking. "She admitted, shyly. "Especially since....you know."
"Ya. I was curious about that, about a lot of things."
"Thing like what?" Carla asked, gulping.
"Well I wanna talk more about what go into you-"
"Okay and?"
"And I wanna know more about YOU as a person." Joey said, with sincerity in his voice.
"You'd take the time to learn more about me? I'm boring."
"I'd like to be the judge of that." He smirks.
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