CHAPTER NINE: there is nothing we can do
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breakfast that next morning is quiet.
that god awful, awkward type of silence that seems to ring out against people's ears.
seriously, why on earth couldn't they just talk it out? like the grown adults they were? sure, they're only twenty two and three, practically still kids in elders eyes, but they were certainly old enough to not act so—what's the word?
childish.
that's the exact word finn's mother had been thinking as she watched the pair. looking through narrowed eyes at how her son and his best friend seemed to dance around one another tensely, only speaking when strictly necessary.
strangely, their skin both seemed to be stained in a permanent flush. it would fade into a lighter hue before suddenly brightening again, almost as if they were thinking of a certain anomaly that held their baited breaths and pinked their cheeks.
biting into her eggs the older woman comes to realize just how desperate her son's eyes are. they were always so expressive as a child. wide and soft and filled with that same beautiful browned color she'd fallen in love with.
but now they seemed nothing but confused and even pained perhaps, twinkled with something his mother couldn't comprehend. like he was urgently and slowly waiting for something to happen.
mary looks to millie now.
the girl's features and expressions are the same in a sense, except not really. actually not at all. of course there's that same well known look of anguish in them that's the same as her kid's. but her's hold a more guilty nature to them, pleading silently and begging for something mary can't seem to understand either.
it's almost like—the woman has to keep herself from wanting to smile at the prospect—like something's happened, and not just as something as simple as a disagreement.
now mary really has to try to keep the smirk off her lips.
"so how was the kiss?"
their eyes widen and snap all too dramatically at her, and she barely manages to simply press away a laugh.
finn is the first to speak. just a squeak really. "k-kiss?"
"we didn't kiss!" millie exclaims loudly too then. her heart is pounding so loud and hard she's pretty sure if you looked close enough you could see it beating out her chest. god, the kiss is all she can think about for crying out loud!
how his lips seemed to slot perfectly with her own. warming her bottom lip with his top one. it made her whole body sing and ache tremendously.
"i didn't say you did," finn's mother says confusingly as she waves a hand in the air, feigning false innocence at the sentiment. "i meant how was the kiss of the water! you know that's what us oldies used to call it back in the day."
somehow her son doesn't totally believe that.
millie blushes procuring a sound of embarrassment before responding. her voice is low and she wishes she could just melt into the chair right about now.
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pact promises
Fanfiction- "...but what about our pact millie? you promised remember?" she sighs, her eyes gleaming oh so differently than he had remembered from all those years ago. might as well have been lifetimes now that he really looks at the young woman. "we were kid...
