[owe mineo a punch, that is. he won't deny that much. but he can be angry and grateful towards him all at once.
maybe this was a mistake. mineo's the one who asked, but white can't help but wonder if this only made things worse for him, rather than help anything at all. or maybe he shouldn't think about it in the first place, because in the end, he wants to hold onto whatever scraps of happiness the world will allow him.]
... You're your own worst critic, you know.
[though white can acknowledge his own expectations are skewed. when life itself was a privilege and not a right, white doesn't know what, at this point, is too much or too little. (and cynically, he realizes that if this situation ever came up again, mineo would likely make the same choices all over again, so what does it matter, really?)]
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[owe mineo a punch, that is. he won't deny that much. but he can be angry and grateful towards him all at once.
maybe this was a mistake. mineo's the one who asked, but white can't help but wonder if this only made things worse for him, rather than help anything at all. or maybe he shouldn't think about it in the first place, because in the end, he wants to hold onto whatever scraps of happiness the world will allow him.]
... You're your own worst critic, you know.
[though white can acknowledge his own expectations are skewed. when life itself was a privilege and not a right, white doesn't know what, at this point, is too much or too little. (and cynically, he realizes that if this situation ever came up again, mineo would likely make the same choices all over again, so what does it matter, really?)]