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It felt like an ugly reminder of why exactly he was sitting here, in a strange apartment in a strange town far from home. The reason he'd fled. He didn't think about it much, pushed it all to the darkest corners of his mind most of the time. It was quite the opposite of what his therapist had told him to do, but you know, whatever. Usually he tried to make it up for himself in his mind, pointing towards the fact that he's making a new start for himself. The cowardice betrayed him, always louder than his supposedly good intentions.
Whatever Taako said almost went over his head, too wrapped up in his own anxieties to really listen. Catching the last sentence at least, he looked the other in the eye again, kicking himself mentally. “Heh, I think I'd surprise you.” He tried to smile, an idea popping into his head. “Actually… hold on, lemme find something.”
Rising from the table, he rushed to one of the still unopened box sitting beside his couch, digging through it. “I think mom put it here- ah!” A thick photo album in a deep red shade emerged, and Magnus felt the smile on his face turn genuine. Opening it and flipping through the numerous pages, he walked back to sit at the table. “I was kinda tiny when I was small, believe it or not. Took like, four growth spurts to grow up completely.” He huffed a laugh to himself. “Dad always used to complain about how I never seemed to stop growing.”
Finding the page he was looking for, he passed the book over in-between the two on the table so Taako could see. The four pictures on the pages depicted Magnus, all in the age around six or seven. Always smiling brightly, one front tooth missing. Whether he was sitting on his mom's shoulders and waving at the bears at the zoo, building the tree house or having a battle of waterguns in the backyard. Julia was in most of them, he noticed with a heavy heart. It wasn't something he'd so obviously seen before, how she'd really been there every step of the way for him. Always there.
Whatever Taako said almost went over his head, too wrapped up in his own anxieties to really listen. Catching the last sentence at least, he looked the other in the eye again, kicking himself mentally. “Heh, I think I'd surprise you.” He tried to smile, an idea popping into his head. “Actually… hold on, lemme find something.”
Rising from the table, he rushed to one of the still unopened box sitting beside his couch, digging through it. “I think mom put it here- ah!” A thick photo album in a deep red shade emerged, and Magnus felt the smile on his face turn genuine. Opening it and flipping through the numerous pages, he walked back to sit at the table. “I was kinda tiny when I was small, believe it or not. Took like, four growth spurts to grow up completely.” He huffed a laugh to himself. “Dad always used to complain about how I never seemed to stop growing.”
Finding the page he was looking for, he passed the book over in-between the two on the table so Taako could see. The four pictures on the pages depicted Magnus, all in the age around six or seven. Always smiling brightly, one front tooth missing. Whether he was sitting on his mom's shoulders and waving at the bears at the zoo, building the tree house or having a battle of waterguns in the backyard. Julia was in most of them, he noticed with a heavy heart. It wasn't something he'd so obviously seen before, how she'd really been there every step of the way for him. Always there.