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 Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2012 3:19 am
Evelyn blink twice and then it hit her. “OH! You want to talk about Jessie!”
Then Evelyn began blushing like mad. “He’s…he’s, oh, dear…”
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Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2012 3:21 am
Cressa grinned widely. "Mesmerising? Hypnotising? Eroticising? Fantasising? Hypothesising? Certainly a good choice of extracurricular activity?"
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Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2012 3:25 am
Evelyn’s cheeks would have burned off of her face, if they could have. “Oh, well…yes, I suppose he is…” Evelyn began twiddling her thumbs, attempting to stop herself from thinking that she had a date—at least she thought it was a date—with the elf that was most definitely everything that Cressa had just said.
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Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2012 3:29 am
Cressa squeaked with delight and seized Evelyn's hands excitedly. "Oh, come on!! You MUST tell me everything! I simply adore girly-girly talk!! We can have a sleepover, except it's the middle of the day and we aren't sleeping over! And instead of popcorn and marshmallows, we have a bag of limes!"
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Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2012 3:33 am
Evelyn smiled at her excited friend and teacher before responding. “I don’t have a particular fondness for limes…unless, of course, there’s tequila involved.”
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Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2012 3:36 am
"That can be arranged!" she said, "But as much as I love tequila and limes, don't change the subject! The beans MUST be spilled! What's been going on?! How do you feeeeel? Are you excited? Nervous...?"
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Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2012 3:43 am
“I’m actually just kinda…surprised still. I mean, I definitely wasn’t expecting anything that had happened—I mean, not that anything has!” Her hands flew up and she waved them back and forth, innocently. “We’ve just…kissed.” She looked at the ground, sheepishly.
She could imagine having this conversation with her sisters, and this was the part where they would burst into giggles and say “THAT’S IT?!”
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Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2012 3:45 am
Cressa nodded understandingly. "And how do you feel about that?" she asked. "It might sound like a silly question, but... is this what you want?"
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Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2012 3:50 am
Evelyn was crimson. “It’s nice. I’d, uh, I’d like to continue with everything—that is as long as he would.” The sudden thought that maybe Cressa was going to tell Evelyn it was over hit her and she crossed her fingers behind her back.
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Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2012 3:55 am
"Well, that's reassuring. I'm sure he'd feel happy to know that you're not looking for ways to escape him at every turn," she giggled. Then, her smile grew oddly somber. "He'll always put you first. Sometimes, it's easy to forget that he has feelings, too. He's very good at hiding them. He's had a lot of practise submitting to others."
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Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2012 4:01 am
Evelyn looked confused and concerned at the same time. Then realization hit. Oh.
“But I don’t want him to put me first. I’d much rather he put himself first. Really.”
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Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2012 4:08 am
"Try telling him that!"
"Anyway... I'm just warning you, Evie. I don't want to see him hurt, or backed into a corner, or pressured into doing anything he doesn't want to do. I know you wouldn't do anything on purpose. Which is why I want you to beware of doing it accidentally," she said. Perhaps it was interfering of her to be saying anything at all - Jessie would be mad at her if he thought she'd upset Evelyn over him. But if he wouldn't look after himself - well, someone had to, didn't they?
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Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2012 4:23 am
Evelyn started biting the part of her hand that connected her thumb to the rest of it. She bounced on her toes as she thought carefully. Had she done anything to cause Jessie to think he was obligated to her? She pulled her hand from her mouth and worriedly blurted out a rant. “Jessie invited me to go to the opera. Do you think he actually wants to or do you think he’s just being nice because he thinks that it’s what I want to do? I don’t want him to go if he doesn’t actually want to. I don’t want him to think that he has to. He doesn’t. He really doesn’t. If he doesn’t want to spend time with me that’s okay. I don’t need him to. He doesn’t have to.” Evelyn finally shut herself up by shoving her hand back into her mouth.
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Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2012 4:29 am
Cressa's eyes lit up as she smiled. "No, he genuinely wants to spend time with you. He's spoken and thought of very little other than you all weekend."
"...It may have been wrong of me to say things like this to you. It's really none of my business... I just... care about him. I... worry, I suppose. Yes, I do worry."
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Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2012 4:42 am
Evelyn reached out and touched Cressa’s hand. But somehow, it didn’t seem like enough. She stood on her tip-toes (okay, maybe she used a TINY floatation spell) and hugged Cressa. “The brilliance of you is that you can care so much and yet hold yourself together so well. I worry about you.”
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