[ melissa sucks in a breath and stops herself before she says something stupid that she can't take back.
she reaches up with her good arm to adjust her hat. it's muscle memory, an anxious tic, but the hat is god-knows-where. not on her head, that's for sure. she tries to disguise the movement as if she meant to rake her fingers through her hair, but she's sure that shauna knows what she meant to do anyway. shauna notices a lot of the things that people try to hide about themselves.
but so does melissa. she can see the way shauna's lip curls to cover up the way that her eyes have gone just a little bit too wide and confused, the way she instinctively tucks the towel more tightly around herself for protection. it's infuriating that shauna is acting like she doesn't know what's wrong. at the same time, it's gratifying that shauna is, after everything, still just... a girl. she can get nervous. ]
Why'd you leave? [ melissa asks after a moment, quieter. she already knows why; she just wants to hear shauna admit to it. ]
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[ melissa sucks in a breath and stops herself before she says something stupid that she can't take back.
she reaches up with her good arm to adjust her hat. it's muscle memory, an anxious tic, but the hat is god-knows-where. not on her head, that's for sure. she tries to disguise the movement as if she meant to rake her fingers through her hair, but she's sure that shauna knows what she meant to do anyway. shauna notices a lot of the things that people try to hide about themselves.
but so does melissa. she can see the way shauna's lip curls to cover up the way that her eyes have gone just a little bit too wide and confused, the way she instinctively tucks the towel more tightly around herself for protection. it's infuriating that shauna is acting like she doesn't know what's wrong. at the same time, it's gratifying that shauna is, after everything, still just... a girl. she can get nervous. ]
Why'd you leave? [ melissa asks after a moment, quieter. she already knows why; she just wants to hear shauna admit to it. ]