[ He lets her spill out the words, because he suspects she needs to. he wonders if she’s vented this at all, since the day she and Claude had first fought. Bottling it up was doing neither of them any good.
But when she winds her way though all that hurt and comes up with, what he suspects, is completely the wrong answer, he just gives a heavy sigh and shakes his head. Reaching out, he grasps her chin between his fingers and turns her face towards him, not letting her tug away again. ]
Goddess only knows how you two got through your school years together, if you’re both always this stubbornly obtuse. There are a lot of things friends are for, and there are many ways we express that friendship. Loyalty, protectiveness, partnership.
If I thought the only thing he felt for you was friendship, then yes, I’d agree with you completely. However, when deeper feelings get involved, it tends to muddle things. And the more you care about a person, the more strongly you feel for them, the harder it is to wade your way through all that to what should be, to others, an obvious conclusion.
Which is why I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt for not seeing it either, I suppose. But you two are both standing on either side of the same line, staring at each other and thinking you can’t have everything you want. Thinking that taking that last step that crosses it might end everything between you, when in fact, it would probably just destroy the line that neither of you want to keep there in the first place.
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Date: 2023-07-23 01:33 pm (UTC)But when she winds her way though all that hurt and comes up with, what he suspects, is completely the wrong answer, he just gives a heavy sigh and shakes his head. Reaching out, he grasps her chin between his fingers and turns her face towards him, not letting her tug away again. ]
Goddess only knows how you two got through your school years together, if you’re both always this stubbornly obtuse. There are a lot of things friends are for, and there are many ways we express that friendship. Loyalty, protectiveness, partnership.
If I thought the only thing he felt for you was friendship, then yes, I’d agree with you completely. However, when deeper feelings get involved, it tends to muddle things. And the more you care about a person, the more strongly you feel for them, the harder it is to wade your way through all that to what should be, to others, an obvious conclusion.
Which is why I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt for not seeing it either, I suppose. But you two are both standing on either side of the same line, staring at each other and thinking you can’t have everything you want. Thinking that taking that last step that crosses it might end everything between you, when in fact, it would probably just destroy the line that neither of you want to keep there in the first place.