“Where are you learning coding?” I scoffed, wondering how much shit I could give him for turning red and if the lecture I would get from my dad would be worth it. He hates when his kids fight.

“Online,” he said, like it was obvious. “There’s tons of free classes.”

“And this is something that you think you’d actually want to do? For, like, a living?”

“I think I could be really good at it,” he said softly, like he was trying to convince himself that was true. I’ve never seen Aaron uncertain about anything and suddenly my impulse to tease him into the ground was dampened.

“That’s…” I searched for the right word. Aaron and I don’t really … encourage each other? We’re not mean to one another, we just … Aaron and I exist in our separate corners of the world, sometimes waving at each other from our individual castles, but never going into one another’s kingdoms.

“That’s … really cool, Aaron,” I said eventually, unable to come up with anything more profound. He smiled a tiny bit, but I think I disappointed him by not asking more. I wouldn’t have known what to ask.

I never know what to ask.

community/TheUnusuals post by n/thatsahumanperson

Hey folks, I know it’s been a while since I’ve posted in this sub—I’ve actually been making a stab at real life stuff lately and it’s taking up a lot of my time. But, you know, I can still read minds, so that’s something I’m dealing with.

A little update on that end: I’ve been better. I think last time I posted on here, I’d just made the breakthrough: the one a few of us have experienced when the thoughts start to separate themselves like trains on parallel tracks and you can choose which cars to get on. I’ve been doing well, I think, able to change the volume, the speed of the tracks. I’ve been feeling pretty proud of myself, if I’m honest, but then something … weird happened.

I was talking to my sister—trying to have an actual conversation with her, focus on what she was saying, and nothing else—but she kept accusing me of listening in, which I absolutely wasn’t, so don’t get on my case, n/chuckxavier. I’ve been doing really well at not eavesdropping on people’s thoughts.