The first kiss of flame and she jerked her hand back to safety, clutching it to her chest as she gave him a hurt look. No doubt the delicate tan skin under her wrist was already turning pink from the heat, but it was his words that hurt.
"I don't see how that proves anything!" She said as she lifted her hand to look over her wrist, rubbing her thumb over the heated spot. "I'm certainly not going to let you burn me willingly... It makes me wonder what your real opinion of me is, to think I would."
And honestly, she really did wonder at him. Maybe she had put out those vibes... been to compliant, too helpful... but what was it in him that made him want to hurt her for it? Return care with harm? She'd been nothing, but kind to him... even gone out of her way for him, lied to her family for him... missed sleep and made her school work suffer... and after that stunt in the bathroom, he had to rub it all in deeper, like she didn't already know how stupid and useless she was.
Whirling, she crushed out the cigarette she had been holding, leaving the last few centimeters before the filter in the ash tray on the window sill.
"You're obviously well enough today to look after yourself, so I think I'm going to go home early." She said as she spun and left his room, her steps a quick march down the hall and back again. Framed in the door way when she came back, she lobbed a bottle of water at him under hand, then a package of dry animal crackers she had snagged from the bag she had left forgotten in the entry way. "Drink the water, eat the crackers, and try not to really die before I get here tomorrow, ok? Like I said... your room mate would kill me if we left stains in his carpet."
Her exit was swift and, while she gave no outward sign that she was hurt or angry with him, the tempo and brusque farewell hinted at it. She was simply to kind to actually tell him to go ******** himself like 'most people' would. Her absence could do it for her.
Aeeth
