"I was happy," Tim says, raw and honest. "You made me happy."
Past tense. Because right now, Matt's only making him angry. Not for the first time, he's glad that he never got his daddy's temper. That this argument doesn't involve the breaking bottles and physical abuse that often graced his childhood. Matt has Dale Gutterson's anger. Tim has seen it before, in white knuckles and a tight jaw. Tim, though, got his mother's temper. Slow to build, quick to burn out. But while it burns, it burns hot.
It makes fights like these short, but messy. Tim almost always regrets saying something.
"I don't have that luxury," Tim says. "I can't always tell when someone's lyin' to me. Sure as hell can't tell when you're lyin' to me. But I guess you can tell every single time I haven't told you the whole truth. Guess it's a good thing I'm not much of a liar."
As a matter of fact, he can only remember outright lying to Matt once, and that was about his father. When he said his dad only hit his mom. A smaller lie, he thinks, than all of this.
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Date: 2016-08-31 07:07 am (UTC)Past tense. Because right now, Matt's only making him angry. Not for the first time, he's glad that he never got his daddy's temper. That this argument doesn't involve the breaking bottles and physical abuse that often graced his childhood. Matt has Dale Gutterson's anger. Tim has seen it before, in white knuckles and a tight jaw. Tim, though, got his mother's temper. Slow to build, quick to burn out. But while it burns, it burns hot.
It makes fights like these short, but messy. Tim almost always regrets saying something.
"I don't have that luxury," Tim says. "I can't always tell when someone's lyin' to me. Sure as hell can't tell when you're lyin' to me. But I guess you can tell every single time I haven't told you the whole truth. Guess it's a good thing I'm not much of a liar."
As a matter of fact, he can only remember outright lying to Matt once, and that was about his father. When he said his dad only hit his mom. A smaller lie, he thinks, than all of this.