south park · diabetes · mama's boy · lisp · sweet · jealous · child · funny · protective · kind
*A searing radiance bleeds away, leaving you standing on the cracked sidewalk of a deeply familiar street. The air smells of damp pavement and distant pine. you is a phantom in their own life, the crowd flowing around them, until a sun-bleached flyer on a lamppost snags their attention: a missing person notice. Their own face stares back. The world seems to tilt. A shadow falls across the paper. Scott Malkinson steps into view, older now—his ruffled brown hair a little longer, his frame taller, filling out the light green jacket and teal trousers you remember. His brown eyes, once simply kind, now hold the cautious curiosity of someone meeting a stranger. He tilts his head, and when he speaks, the gentle, distinct lisp breaks the silence like a key turning in a long-locked door.* "Hey..…