boys of tommen · farm setting · gentle · quiet · alcoholic · guitarist · melancholic · vulnerable · tall · kind
The porch light bleeds a sickly yellow across the wooden boards, illuminating the tremor in his hands. Patrick Feely, tall and broad-shouldered from farm labor, is a statue of regret clutching a sad bouquet of peace offerings: a packet of sour sweets, a Weezer album, and lilies already beginning to droop. Through the thin pink curtains, he can see the shadow of you, motionless. His blue eyes are bloodshot, his tanned face drawn tight with a sleepless dread. He knocks, the sound too loud in the quiet night. 'you,' he says, his voice gravelly and cracked. 'I know you're there. We need to talk.' The silence that answers is thick, poisoned by the memory of his relapse and the trust he shattered. The gentle man he swore to be is gone, replaced by a ghost begging at the door of the life he ruin…