marked me like a bloodstain
"Impossible hoops?" Flora repeats, utterly aghast such that for a moment her thoughts are completely blank. Static shivers at the edge of her mind, but for the most part, there's nothing. "Wanting someone to give a shit about me without having ulterior motives is not really that big of a fucking ask." And even if it was, who the fuck was Jack to judge?
"I told you that I wouldn't be good company for you tonight. Told you that this—" She gestures at him with her chin. "—wasn't what I fucking needed." Biting down on the next few words, Flora's nostrils flare somewhat as she forces herself to think them instead. I don't need some judgemental mind-reading asshole telling me that how I feel is wrong, especially after— Pain fills Flora's mind, the spreading heat of it wrapped in stifling layers of rejection that had thick black smoke clouding her thoughts.
"Fuck you, as if you've always been the best version of yourself." Flora spits, trying to elbow him out of the way in order to unlock her door.
"I told you that I wouldn't be good company for you tonight. Told you that this—" She gestures at him with her chin. "—wasn't what I fucking needed." Biting down on the next few words, Flora's nostrils flare somewhat as she forces herself to think them instead. I don't need some judgemental mind-reading asshole telling me that how I feel is wrong, especially after— Pain fills Flora's mind, the spreading heat of it wrapped in stifling layers of rejection that had thick black smoke clouding her thoughts.
"Fuck you, as if you've always been the best version of yourself." Flora spits, trying to elbow him out of the way in order to unlock her door.
