HARPER
"Whatever you say princess," he teases quietly. They can turn their eyes away from the distant future for now. Perhaps when the time comes when she needs her space, when she finds someone to make home and hearth with outside of platonic mimicries, she will be stronger. More understanding of why she doesn't really need him, not when she has her own legs beneath her.
Had she hurt him that day? Harper hums low in his chest as he considers it. "Not...directly. I hurt for you because I suspected it was a bad choice, and it hurt that I couldn't help you more. But it wasn't a competition, I couldn't be hurt over you choosing him or something like that." It had never been a choice between Sunjata and Harper. It had always just been pain over losing her to something he knew would hurt her. "So long as you promise for yourself too. I believe in you Phoebe." There was nowhere to go but up from here after all.
Had she hurt him that day? Harper hums low in his chest as he considers it. "Not...directly. I hurt for you because I suspected it was a bad choice, and it hurt that I couldn't help you more. But it wasn't a competition, I couldn't be hurt over you choosing him or something like that." It had never been a choice between Sunjata and Harper. It had always just been pain over losing her to something he knew would hurt her. "So long as you promise for yourself too. I believe in you Phoebe." There was nowhere to go but up from here after all.
lord don't let me break this, let me hold you lightly
give me arms to pray with instead of ones that hold too tightly
give me arms to pray with instead of ones that hold too tightly
