Everest
"It lowers your heart rate." Ever explains, able to understand and reply to Mateo's confusion even though he couldn't have stood up if he tried. The snow cone granules were too small, unfortunately, which meant the paramedic was just letting shaved ice and syrup melt all over himself, but sometimes it be like that.
Trying to focus on his breathing and not the pounding of his pulse in his ears or the way he suddenly felt hot and dizzy and weightless. "She's already gone. There was nothing you could do." He whispers to himself. "Her back was broken. She didn't feel any pain." Panic and wine made the lights all around seemed to blare and sparkle, which only served to disorient the paramedic even more.
"Mateo—" Ever calls, groping into the darkness for his friend. "I miss my mom."
Trying to focus on his breathing and not the pounding of his pulse in his ears or the way he suddenly felt hot and dizzy and weightless. "She's already gone. There was nothing you could do." He whispers to himself. "Her back was broken. She didn't feel any pain." Panic and wine made the lights all around seemed to blare and sparkle, which only served to disorient the paramedic even more.
"Mateo—" Ever calls, groping into the darkness for his friend. "I miss my mom."
even if i had to lose you to know you,
i'd still be that temporary phase that you grow through
i'd still be that temporary phase that you grow through
