Only Drunken Words

Johnny was helpless. Meaningless. Hopeless. Never in a million years, though, would he be named any of those characteristics by Jimmy. The lanky drummer was intent on saving Jay. He promised to protect him at all costs.

And Johnny was sure that after Jimmy had spoken the three, magical words words 'I love you', that things would be different. That they'd change for the better. Because, that's what he'd always deserved, the better. At least, after all of the never ending darkness and suffering that practically consumed and suffocated him throughout his entire childhood.

But, how could they change anything, if they were only drunken words?