He immediately felt like shit when she pinned her ears back. He was an asshole. Totally, and irrevocably, the fucking worst. What was it about dog ears that could make you feel so horrible so quickly? "No, it's nothing. It's fine. Please, don't." He bent at the waist slightly, fingers running down her arms until they curled around her wrists. "Just surprised - thought I had gotten rid of it."
The doorbell sounded off in the foyer and he dropped her wrists as if he'd been burned. Sudden and all at once, pushing digits through his hair. Jet black strands fell back into place immediately when he released them, and he wordlessly turned away from her to answer the door.
His exchange with the delivery driver was brief. At this point in time he would consider himself lucky if Jehovah's Witnesses roamed the streets and went door to door at night. The prospect of accepting Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior sounded preferable to returning to the kitchen and facing Aida.
Small, dark Aida, with her proclivity for being strangely alluring.
Grayson returned to kitchen, adamantly back to not looking at her. He set the pizza on the counter and dropped into one of the stools at the island. Reaching across the granite his slid his beer closer to him and wrapped both hands around it. "Help yourself," he suggested, his thumbs drawing circles in the condensation. "I just got. Like. A Supreme, or whatever. You didn't sound too picky."
Ah, yes. Small talk. Meaningless, and practically no eye contact required. Perfect.
The doorbell sounded off in the foyer and he dropped her wrists as if he'd been burned. Sudden and all at once, pushing digits through his hair. Jet black strands fell back into place immediately when he released them, and he wordlessly turned away from her to answer the door.
His exchange with the delivery driver was brief. At this point in time he would consider himself lucky if Jehovah's Witnesses roamed the streets and went door to door at night. The prospect of accepting Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior sounded preferable to returning to the kitchen and facing Aida.
Small, dark Aida, with her proclivity for being strangely alluring.
Grayson returned to kitchen, adamantly back to not looking at her. He set the pizza on the counter and dropped into one of the stools at the island. Reaching across the granite his slid his beer closer to him and wrapped both hands around it. "Help yourself," he suggested, his thumbs drawing circles in the condensation. "I just got. Like. A Supreme, or whatever. You didn't sound too picky."
Ah, yes. Small talk. Meaningless, and practically no eye contact required. Perfect.
I fear no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet) I want no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true) and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you.
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