Kaldru wasn't
sad.While he'd not exactly gone into the volleyball game at Bloodfest with the expectation of
winning, he'd at least expected to play a half-decent game. Sure, he'd never played it before, but how hard could it have been? The random troll he'd been matched up with seemed fit enough, yet ... They'd both made absolute fools of themselves, hadn't they? It wasn't bad enough that he kept flinging the ball straight into the air, but
she had too, and all together they may as well have just slapped signs on each others' backs screaming "I SUCK." It was supposed to be a fun game, but ...
Kaldru wasn't sad, he was
mad. At first he'd felt despair and embarrassment over their performance, particularly that it was in front of so many others, but as the match went on that twisted into something else. His upset and unhappiness coiled inside his chest until it was a burning knot of something he didn't experience terribly often; the normally cheerful blueblood was
angry, and he had no idea how to deal with it. By the time the match ended and they had to shake hands with their competitors, his eyes were brimming with liquid, and as the two of them padded through the warm, moonlit sand to the refreshment stand, fat tears began to roll down his cheeks. He was a sniffling, sputtering mess once he finally got a drink. He was always so quick to ignore anger and hurt that when he couldn't
reasonably make up an excuse of how to ignore it ... he simply didn't know how to deal.
So he dealt by
crying, blubbering obnoxiously with hard-drawn brows and an irritated scowl, struggling to sip at his juice without breaking into full-on sobs. His mind raced as it tried to find some way to calm him down and swallow the upset, but there wasn't an out.
They did
terribly. That was all there was to it.
"
W-we did s-s-so bad... I-in front of s-so m-many trolls... I'm n-never g-gonna -- hic -- I'm n-never gonna be able t-to show my face again!" he whined, partially to himself and partially towards his partner. Was she even paying attention? Maybe if she'd paid more attention in the
game...
Taki-di
let me know if there's anything you need me to change ; v;