Sad (57821)

Based on that awful silence in there, which is still halfway ringing in your head, you have a lousy, deflated feeling that neither of them are going to come hang out with you today. It takes you a while, as you follow the path down to the water while trying to at least half-assedly pay enough attention to not fall down, to settle on what you want. You wait to start it until you're seated at the end of the jetty with your feet dangling over the side, and then you take a long drink of the rum, chugging down about an inch of the bottle and half-gagging on the fumes.

Because if your actual best friends of all time can't bring themselves to come give you this one last experience as a group, well, fuck it all. Your life has less than zero love in it right now and you really need to wallow in that for a hot second with some star-crossed lovers considerably more doomed than anything you have going on.

You lie back on the wooden planking, put the song on repeat, and press play. It's impossible not to sing to this song because it's such a pleasant choral ballad and she is right in your vocal range, so you loosen one of the earbuds to better hear yourself and settle in. Dead or alive she still yearned for him, 'cause even in darkness there's light, you sing.

Maybe it's the rum because you've listened to this song a zillion times before and it's one of your slightly-sad goto pieces, but by ten or fifteen iterations you're starting to remember what a pretty inspirational song this is, if Cindi Mayweather can sit chained in a cell and find such strength in her true love that she makes it all the way through to Dirty Computer, which okay, not great times either but still.

What the actual fuck are you even doing lying here? Love has to be fought for! Love is worth fighting for! If Scott and Dex won't fight for this friendship, you'll be damned if you're not going to give it another try. You know for a fact the three of you love each other.

You know them both so well that it's impossible to picture anything with enough magnitude to actually ruin how much they like each other.

Which means, a thing with that magnitude doesn't exist. You can mend this.

Indivisible sum.