you look like my next mistake
Flora doesn’t even let him finish his sentence.
The moment Jack's feet hit the ground, she rounds on him, every ounce of frustration, loneliness, and anger that she’s spent the past week simmering in boiling over all at once. "You absolute—" Flora snaps her mouth shut, biting back the very real possibility that she might just scream. She folds her arms tightly, like she might be able to contain the storm swirling inside her, but her mind is an open sea in a hurricane, violent and raging. The waves crash too hard, too fast, drowning any attempt at reason. Flora was not the sort of girl who cooled off when given space; if anything, being away from Jack had only made it worse. No, actually, his couldn't-care-less-replies over their parchment is what had really done it.
The jagged edges of her thoughts, sharp as coral, entangling as seaweed, spread out like a vast reef of unspoken words, all vying for pole position until her tongue was nearly tied with it. "If you wanted to know where I was specifically you could have asked at any time," she snaps, though she knows he wouldn't have, because he didn't care.
The moment Jack's feet hit the ground, she rounds on him, every ounce of frustration, loneliness, and anger that she’s spent the past week simmering in boiling over all at once. "You absolute—" Flora snaps her mouth shut, biting back the very real possibility that she might just scream. She folds her arms tightly, like she might be able to contain the storm swirling inside her, but her mind is an open sea in a hurricane, violent and raging. The waves crash too hard, too fast, drowning any attempt at reason. Flora was not the sort of girl who cooled off when given space; if anything, being away from Jack had only made it worse. No, actually, his couldn't-care-less-replies over their parchment is what had really done it.
The jagged edges of her thoughts, sharp as coral, entangling as seaweed, spread out like a vast reef of unspoken words, all vying for pole position until her tongue was nearly tied with it. "If you wanted to know where I was specifically you could have asked at any time," she snaps, though she knows he wouldn't have, because he didn't care.
