lamentation | r.aiden ei

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a/n: writing style changed again. idk lol.
cw: eating avoidance

DAY ONE - HOUR ONE

"The wifi isn't working." You mumble, desperately smacking at your phone as if that's really gonna help. Ei watches you with a deep frown, her hand holding her own phone momentarily pausing in mid air. "I really should have paid the extra fifteen for celular data..."

Ei doesn't want to say it, but she's partially blaming herself for not checking the weather. But last night she—

"The reception might be better in the kitchen. There are more windows," She murmurs, moving before you could stop her and practically rushing to the kitchen. Her breathing is jumping to new heights, but, with you being successfully evaded she is able to calm herself down before anything bad happens.

Back inside the living room you spare her a glance as she leaves, choosing to sit down and rub at your head pensively rather than actually do anything to help your situation.

Blame it on a trauma response. Or something.

Anyway, you glance sideways at your phone and tap it a few times, sighing deeply and shouting to Ei. "I'm assuming you didn't get anything?"

"Give me a minute!"

You can hear her sigh and you hate it.

Your eyes glance back around the room, and a few moments pass until she's coming back in. You avoid looking at her face as she speaks. "Yeah. No good. Happy?"

"Why are you being such a bitch?"

"I'm not."

"You are."

"Okay so what?"

You don't register the scoff that comes out, but Ei does and it makes her slightly ticked off. The silence that drifts through the air is suffocating.

You want to swim out of it.

You're drowning.

Ei's voice is an unlikely floatation device. "Turn on the fireplace, it's cold."

"And how am I supposed to do that?" You grumble, pinching the bridge of your nose slightly in agitation.  "Rub the logs together?"

"There's a lighter somewhere in the cabin."

"Okay then you go look for it," You hate this conversation. Ei is silent. You give in. "Alright whatever."

Pushing up from the couch you find yourself looking under things rather unenthusiastically, poking through different drawers for a series of minutes until you find the lighter is not in the living room.

You nearly breathe a sigh of relief as you get to leave the room. Ei's presence alone drives you insane, in the worst way possible. You walk to the kitchen and find it as you left it, the dishes still in the sink and cereal unevenly placed amongst a counter.

Your eyes rake over everything and land on the top of the fridge, where the end of the lightly pokes out. After you grab it you come back into the living room and find Ei hasn't moved. Almost statuesque. It scares you.