Evie
When hope and peace begin to fray
While she’d initially moved closer for that very reason, as she gleefully takes in the stunned expression she has sown on his handsome face, Evie finds herself grateful for the perfect placement she’d unintentionally given herself. The peppers are sweet and bright against her tastebuds, but they scarcely manage to distract her from absorbing his reaction. She had been content to let him set and keep unspoken boundaries, afraid to push on areas that might be sore and forbidden, but alone here with hours of contentment surrounding them on both sides she can’t help but push the line a little further.
They hang in the moment, Evie poised on the proverbial edge, pulse high in her throat as she waits for him to make some sort of choice in his reaction. Only to gasp, affronted, at his form of revenge as the sparse snacks are ushered away and something far better - and now forbidden - is brought to the fore. “You didn’t say you had brownies!” she objects, eyes bright with mirth even as she pulls herself along the wall until his knee just barely presses against her side. “Don’t be hasty, we can make a deal right?” Wheedling an offer to barter on the backs of apologies and favors, intent on reparations that would ensure access to the grand, chocolatey reward.
They hang in the moment, Evie poised on the proverbial edge, pulse high in her throat as she waits for him to make some sort of choice in his reaction. Only to gasp, affronted, at his form of revenge as the sparse snacks are ushered away and something far better - and now forbidden - is brought to the fore. “You didn’t say you had brownies!” she objects, eyes bright with mirth even as she pulls herself along the wall until his knee just barely presses against her side. “Don’t be hasty, we can make a deal right?” Wheedling an offer to barter on the backs of apologies and favors, intent on reparations that would ensure access to the grand, chocolatey reward.
know that daybreak is not far away
