Simon~
Against my better judgement, I had let the guy into my house. If my parents came and saw him here, I knew that they were going to freak out.
I should stop doing this, this impulsive kindness. It was not healthy or good. But he looked so pitiful that I would have instantly become a bad person if I had chosen to walk away from him and leave him alone.
So I brought him in instead. I watched him as he sat awkwardly on the couch, Nicole was not awkward her first day here. Sure, my parents were a handful but she was not awkward. She was just herself, her usual paranoid, out of control self.
I watched him with the corner of my eyes, as I poured him a glass of water, to calm him down a bit. He looked around nervously, as if he had not just begged me to hear him out. I sighed and I kept asking myself what I had gotten myself into.
