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TW: mentions of abuse, bombing, targeted attacks
For Cherish falling in love was quite easy. The sight of a waterfall? Flower blooming? Art piece? A new brush? A plate of benights? Traveling? Beautiful people? People being nice? Love. Love. LOVE.
The hard part was differentiating her feelings. Was she feeling something romantic? Platonic? Fleeting? Both?
Maybe that's why falling in love with Miguel was easy. Cherish had the time to process her feeling and figure out what she felt, wanted, and could settle with. She felt love, and wanted to date Miguel, and if he didn't want that she'd settle for being friends.
Really to describe falling in love with Miguel, Cherish would say it was more like she woke up. One day it was 'I like this person' which turned into 'I love this person' the following day.
The change wasn't black and white, it just was.
Cherish could be emotionally off, wasn't really a secret and not something strangers would know because if asked she'd tell a stranger about her grandpa's Alzheimer and brother being in a church bombing. What she wouldn't share with strangers was the emotion in her voice or face when the topic is brought up.
It was something the couple had actually talked about and Miguel being himself brings up the subject in a not-so-subtle way, "You scare me sometimes"
"I scare you?" Cherish questions with a smile knowing she knew how to be scary, it was something she prized herself with because she knew deep down being scary or intimidating was a defense mechanism
"Sometimes" Miguel states as they had just finished watching a scary movie that not once did Cherish jump just stayed sitting eating popcorn
"How?" Cherish curiously asks not taking it seriously by the way she was throwing popcorn in the air to catch in her mouth
"There are times when you're emotionally..." Miguel trails off feeling he was digging himself a grave and Cherish's eyebrows raising meant it was already dug and no way out but through "detached"
