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[hostage]

[Goodbye to the Jesse who was a clean and successful art student, hello again to the Jesse who looks like he spent the last three nights sleeping under a bridge.]

Been thinking about this the past couple days, trying to figure out how I really feel about it, but you know what? I still feel the same as I did before:

It was shitty.

It was shitty for you guys to change us back without asking if that's what we wanted. A lot of us were better off the way we were last week. The next time something like that happens, maybe ask how we fucking feel about it.

[He just had to get that off his chest.]

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[hostage]

[Jesse waves irritably at the air, like he's swatting off that trite sentiment.]

Yeah. Yeah, just gotta pull up my bootstraps, put my best foot forward, believe in myself, work hard, focus on the positive, fly straight, and remember to smile.

[quaerit]

[ Irritation rises. He hears sarcasm, but the truth is, that basically is his attitude. Moving forward is all anyone can ever do. What’s the alternative? ]

I’m not saying you have to smile. But work for what you want, keep moving forward? Yes, all of that. Otherwise you won’t go anywhere, and as long as you’re alive you have somewhere else to go. You’re not trapped in your own past.

[hostage]

No, everything I want is trapped in my past.

[quaerit]

What does that mean - people, someone you've lost?