HARPER
The steel in her gaze is unexpected, but not unwelcome. Harper meets it with the same steady calm that he always exudes, knowing this is a conversation that has likely been budding in her mind for quite some time if she is capable of putting it into words so easily.
The question she poses isn't an easy one, and certainly not one that Harper is going to immediately jump into answering. He considers it for a time, staring into her eyes as he questions himself. "I wouldn't say I haven't thought of it at all," he agrees, because who doesn't imagine such things even with people they don't have interest in courting? "But we are both damaged people, and I wouldn't even entertain the idea until you were in a better place. If at all. I'm not without my own baggage after all, and your friendship has been and always will be enough." In the sense that even if he wanted to be with her, and she denied him, he would be content to have her as his friend until their parting days.
The question she poses isn't an easy one, and certainly not one that Harper is going to immediately jump into answering. He considers it for a time, staring into her eyes as he questions himself. "I wouldn't say I haven't thought of it at all," he agrees, because who doesn't imagine such things even with people they don't have interest in courting? "But we are both damaged people, and I wouldn't even entertain the idea until you were in a better place. If at all. I'm not without my own baggage after all, and your friendship has been and always will be enough." In the sense that even if he wanted to be with her, and she denied him, he would be content to have her as his friend until their parting days.
can you protect me from what i want?
the love i let in, it left me so lost
the love i let in, it left me so lost
