His hand closes around the space where hers was and then he pulls back, too, though his posture is the opposite of hers: he's a little slouched and entirely unguarded. Silent, too, because he doesn't know what else to say, where to begin — or if he even should.
He doesn't want her to know it's Stephanie, and he'd rather leave out the detail where he knew about this months ago and tried to ignore it in favor of building something with Effie.
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Date: 2013-09-27 08:43 pm (UTC)For now, anyway.
His hand closes around the space where hers was and then he pulls back, too, though his posture is the opposite of hers: he's a little slouched and entirely unguarded. Silent, too, because he doesn't know what else to say, where to begin — or if he even should.
He doesn't want her to know it's Stephanie, and he'd rather leave out the detail where he knew about this months ago and tried to ignore it in favor of building something with Effie.
That was so remarkably stupid.]