I finished the Mouse/Rose scene I started last night. I'm getting really excited. I've reached the halfway point of the fic AND Part 2. Things are picking up! Revelations revealed! Relationships coming to a head!
Today's sample:
“You’re in love with Marcus.” It was said softly, delicately. Rose genuinely felt bad, which surprised her. Everything about this meeting had surprised her. She couldn’t deploy her usual shock and awe tactics. This made Amelia Katz an even more fascinating subject to her. “How deep?”
Amelia took another swing of water from the bottle after fumbling the removal of the cap. “Shallow end. Now I’m officially ready to climb out of the pool.” A small smile to acknowledge how idiotic it all was. “I had been further in not long ago, I admit. I splashed around but, thankfully, never dove into the deep end.”
“Good,” Rose said firmly. “You deserve someone who will acknowledge and appreciate you. I get the feeling that person was never Marcus Keane.”
The woman across from her with her own mane of black hair pinned back at the temples shook her head. “Never like that, no. The weird thing is, I don’t think I ever wanted him to think of me in that way. It was just a schoolgirl crush that went on far too long. Had he ever kissed me, I would have evaporated. That’s not healthy.”
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Date: 2018-05-14 03:35 am (UTC)Today's sample:
“You’re in love with Marcus.” It was said softly, delicately. Rose genuinely felt bad, which surprised her. Everything about this meeting had surprised her. She couldn’t deploy her usual shock and awe tactics. This made Amelia Katz an even more fascinating subject to her. “How deep?”
Amelia took another swing of water from the bottle after fumbling the removal of the cap. “Shallow end. Now I’m officially ready to climb out of the pool.” A small smile to acknowledge how idiotic it all was. “I had been further in not long ago, I admit. I splashed around but, thankfully, never dove into the deep end.”
“Good,” Rose said firmly. “You deserve someone who will acknowledge and appreciate you. I get the feeling that person was never Marcus Keane.”
The woman across from her with her own mane of black hair pinned back at the temples shook her head. “Never like that, no. The weird thing is, I don’t think I ever wanted him to think of me in that way. It was just a schoolgirl crush that went on far too long. Had he ever kissed me, I would have evaporated. That’s not healthy.”
“Kinda like his relationship with Tomas.”