Chick Habit

Swiftgron: "You never looked at me the same way you look at her."

"You never looked at me the same way you look at her." Dianna's voice was flat and without any hint of emotion and her face was stoic as if she'd accepted this grave fact and was determined to go on living in spite of it.

A few seconds passed between them before Taylor finally burst out laughing, "You're so dramatic!"

Dianna closed her eyes for a moment at these words, sighed, opened them again and said, in the same flat tone, "darling I'm an acTOR, it's what I do!" She put extra emphasis on the world's final syllable, making it sound posh and old-timey and still not cracking even a little smile.

Taylor bit the inside of her cheek to avoid giggling and said, as seriously as she could, "I'm sorry you feel overlooked, babe, but-"

"No," Dianna interrupted would-be sharply, "it's official and nothing you say can change it, you love that cat more than me!"

At the mention of her new pet Taylor squealed and scooped Meredith up from the carpet, not paying the animal's protests at being woken up from her slumber any mind.

"I'm sorry," she said to Dianna again, tone silly and overbearing, before turning back to the kitten again, "but she's just so cute, yes she isssss!" She spoke the last few words into the soft fur and Dianna immediately proceeded to start sobbing obnoxiously at this.

"A-And I'm...n-ot cute?" She wailed in a way that despite knowing that her girlfriend was teasing pulled at Taylor's heartstrings.

"Of course you are," She said doing her best not to look amused again, "isn't Di cute?" She asked the cat in the same exaggerated baby-voice as before, turning Meredith in her arms so that she could look at the other woman.

Then, burying her face between the cat's ears to give the illusion that Meredith was the one answering the question, "Yeah she's adorable, but not exactly a kitten or anything, we are scientifically proven to be the cutest creatures on planet Earth after all!" Came "Meredith's" high-pitched answer and at last Dianna broke character to grin at her girlfriend's antics.

"I would keep going, but you're so fucking adorable I'm gonna kiss you!" With those words she started making her way over to where Taylor was standing, holding the kitten to her chest and skeptically raising her eyebrows.

"Does this mean I have to put Mere back down now?"