Jemstone Comix

I love you. I always will. Don't you ever doubt that. I'm sorry. I took a pill. I felt like crap. I jumped into a pool, The one called "Love." I didn't know how far I'd fall, Or how far I'd sink. A weight chained itself to me, Dragging me farther, farther down. I was afraid, I fell too fast. I expected a pond, And found an ocean. Above, it was disguised. But below, it was vast. But never empty. It was full.  So, so full. It was overwhelming. I felt like I was drowning. Then I met you.  You taught me how to swim. You taught me everything you knew. But I was still afraid. So I hid myself in a hole. You asked me to come with you, to keep swimming. But I couldn't. I was losing air. Too fast. I had to surface again, Or I'd surely drown. My drifting body the only thing left of me. So when you held my hand, I pulled. I pulled gently, but persistently. I needed you to let go. Let go so I could breathe again. I don't remember what happened, But after pu...

 (Author's note: not all events or interactions are canon. They are simply there to add detail and to show the dynamic between the characters.)  Let me start from the beginning… There was this boy I'd met as a kid, when I was old enough to know that my parents weren’t doing so well, but not enough to understand why they always brought over my dad’s friends’ son. I never really understood why we saw him so often yet so little. We usually had to hang out around the parents, and sometimes I would try to be nice and invite him into my room to play. Eventually, I began to notice that he usually came over when my parents were fighting, and would stop talking to each other for the rest of the week. I knew they had issues, but as a child I’d never known how bad it was. The relationship between Theo Miller and Vannessa Robinson was rocky at best.  At some point I noticed that he wasn’t around as often, and only came over around the holidays. I hadn’t thought about it much before, ...