And just like that the playful mood was back, maybe because her thoughts lingered a little too much on what she had promised him after breakfast. Or maybe the short workout had helped get her really awake and she could feel everything return that she tried to push away so violently. All the thinking, the blame and the fear of the future.
Not right now, not as long as ignorance and fleeing back into this numbness of the last weeks was so much more convenient. It was much more interesting, watching that little drop of juice dangling in Clint's beard and hearing that certain rumble in his voice when he was teasing her.
"Only the donuts? I'm beginning to think I lost my touch."
She watched him over the edge of the can while she took another slow sip and licked the remaining drops on the refreshingly cool edge off then.
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Date: 2014-05-10 08:27 pm (UTC)And just like that the playful mood was back, maybe because her thoughts lingered a little too much on what she had promised him after breakfast. Or maybe the short workout had helped get her really awake and she could feel everything return that she tried to push away so violently. All the thinking, the blame and the fear of the future.
Not right now, not as long as ignorance and fleeing back into this numbness of the last weeks was so much more convenient. It was much more interesting, watching that little drop of juice dangling in Clint's beard and hearing that certain rumble in his voice when he was teasing her.
"Only the donuts? I'm beginning to think I lost my touch."
She watched him over the edge of the can while she took another slow sip and licked the remaining drops on the refreshingly cool edge off then.