...probably not. [It's a quiet admission, but he's...in it, now, he guesses. Still...
There's a guitar in the back of his mind as he thinks of Ariel - or rather, Mephisto's play at Ariel. How he thinks he might have actually started falling in love with him, if it'd continued. How Mephisto was the one to admit it was a falsehood, and the mixture of emotions after Stephen woke up the next day after himself asking for the lie to continue just a little longer- except he'd known it was a lie.
He'd been angry at himself, and at Mephisto then. And then they'd been locked in the kitchen and made their deal, and Stephen had told himself he wouldn't let himself think of it as anything more than that. And- he wasn't.
This was separate. This was him actually considering Mephisto a friend, all on his own terms.
He's singing softly without even realizing it;]
I think it's getting to the point Where I can be myself again It's getting to the point Where we have almost made amends I think it's the getting to the point That is the hardest part
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There's a guitar in the back of his mind as he thinks of Ariel - or rather, Mephisto's play at Ariel. How he thinks he might have actually started falling in love with him, if it'd continued. How Mephisto was the one to admit it was a falsehood, and the mixture of emotions after Stephen woke up the next day after himself asking for the lie to continue just a little longer- except he'd known it was a lie.
He'd been angry at himself, and at Mephisto then. And then they'd been locked in the kitchen and made their deal, and Stephen had told himself he wouldn't let himself think of it as anything more than that. And- he wasn't.
This was separate. This was him actually considering Mephisto a friend, all on his own terms.
He's singing softly without even realizing it;]
I think it's getting to the point
Where I can be myself again
It's getting to the point
Where we have almost made amends
I think it's the getting to the point
That is the hardest part