... I don't think so. I think it'll hurt for a long time.

[he'll call out that lie, because of course he does. senri just laughs quietly even as he doesn't lift his head from where he's pressed against sasuke, if only because he's losing his ability to control his expression, to maintain it into something carefully curated into the shape of happiness. he's an actor, but he's losing his cool. isn't that embarrassing?]

I know it's not long at all... but for fifteen years, all I wanted...

[was a family. was for people to care about him, to look his way without it being for the sake of a lie. was for even just one person to love him unconditionally.]

But now I don't get to keep it.

[and he'll think about them for another fifteen years. and another fifteen after that. and after that.]