vampirecliche:

    “the trick is to sever ties if you can—cruel to say, I know, but sometimes—sometimes you don’t have a choice.”

    he seems thoughtful now, putting out his cigarette against the brick of the building. then again, he’s always thoughtful—he’s just extra thoughtful when he has a cigarette in his hand; it just seems natural. 

             <sub>❛sometimes you have to hurt
                 the ones to love in order to
                 help.❜

     she understands, in a way. she
     watches as he puts out the
     cigarette, & she looks at him
     in                                   thought.</sub>