Literature
Everyone Else - Part 12
Genre: drama, psychological, mature, contemporary, romance, m/m
Contains self harm
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His stomach hurts, and it’s not the kind that can be fixed with Advil and a good night’s sleep. Charlie runs a nail along the tight stitches stapling his skin together as if to test its durability. He winces and pulls back from the tender flesh. Reliable enough, he thinks. Funny how every time he lands in a hospital it’s always at a turning point in his life. He takes a step back for a moment. In hindsight, it had been pointless -- no, naïve -- of him to seek out any one of his parents in a half-assed effort for validation. Every