Arthur flinched as if she had struck him, and took a few steps away from her, so that his back was pressed against the wall of the hallway. It took him a moment to muster a response.
”I can leave,” Art said, and fuck, he wanted to, because it sounded less exhausting than fixing things. ”I can leave and I can stay with my mother —” she would not speak to him for a while after this and he knew it, but he could say he was going there ”— and come back in a few days when my head is straight again. And it’ll never happen again.”
This was not a promise he could keep, he knew that too — it was a promise he could make, though.
”I can leave,” Art said, and fuck, he wanted to, because it sounded less exhausting than fixing things. ”I can leave and I can stay with my mother —” she would not speak to him for a while after this and he knew it, but he could say he was going there ”— and come back in a few days when my head is straight again. And it’ll never happen again.”
This was not a promise he could keep, he knew that too — it was a promise he could make, though.
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