He finds a small folded square of paper. It’s stationery from their hotel that night, the night everything inside Alex rearranged. Henry’s cursive… He fumbles his phone out so fast he almost drops it on the floor and smashes it. The search tells him Pyramus and Thisbe were lovers in a Greek myth, children of rival families, forbidden to be together. Their only way to speak to each other was through a thin crack in the wall built between them. And that is, officially, too fucking much. [insp.]
my favorite scene from AFTG will forever be when Neil asks Andrew why he lets him touch and kiss him, and then he reaches for Andrew and is told “no” he stops his hand, and Andrew says “thats why”
When he buys you flowers instead of smashing a racket into your stomach, drugging you, threatening to murder you,calling you worthless, forcing you to tell him (a stranger) about every aspect of your life or he will send you away, buying you clothes so you don’t embarrass him in public, hooking up with a bartender and pretending it’s you, telling you daily you are worthless and nothing, letting you buy him a 100,000$ dollar sports car, giving you a key to his house, promising to protect you from the mafia, telling you he would go back for you in a zombie apocalypse,telling you to stop having a panic attack and then making out with you, needing to be comforted by putting his hand under your shirt infront of his family, telling you that you were supposed to be a side effect of his medicine, calling you a pipe dream, stopping anything if you ask him to when no one else can, circling campus in the middle of a riot twice after you go missing, almost strangling the person he is deadly protective over in order to get information about where you are, threatening the FBI when they tried to keep him away from you, holding your face gently in his hands as he inspects your injuries,sleeping next to you on the floor with a bunch of people in the room because he is so relieved you are safe, threatening to stab the person his is deadly protective over with a knife to his stomach when he tries to blow off your request to go on vacation, wrapping your injuries and then helping you shower so you don’t get hurt,trusting you enough to want to sleep in bed next to you after years of trauma because he loves you so much, breaking off his deal with his brother so that he can pick you over him, standing outside of your classroom and giving you his knives so he doesn’t kill his brothers girlfriend, sprinting across court to shatter a guys arm on live tv because he tried to smash his over your head, leaving a party early and waiting for you in his bedroom so you could make out Instead of be around anyone else, holding your hand while you kiss and then pressing it to his own chest, adopting you two cats, not signing with court until they offer you a spot, and deciding he was going to spend the rest of his life with you after knowing you less than a year, and