Asylum Challenge #152: Hard To Be Strong.

Darwin confides in his boyfriend Gino, as he has a lot on his mind too.

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"Hey babe, I wanna talk....get stuff off my shoulders."

"Hey, go ahead." Gino smiles warmly.

"I feel kinda stressed out, everyone comes to me and I have to take in both sides of everything and I have to try and be helpful and be the bigger person but sometimes I feel far from strong."

"You just have a way with words, a way with people."

"You think so?" Darwin asks, unsure.

"That's how you got me......"

They exchanged warm smiles.

"Thanks but I don't know what I'm going to do about any of this stuff.....Hayden is already out here making suicidal jokes and shit."

"Good god, I don't think that's healthy." Gino said, holding his temples, "I'm sorry you had to be there for that."

"I know and I don't think anything is worth losing a life over."

"Hm....Hayden knows a lot about that huh? Do you think it's eating at him?"

"Absolutely."