𝐈𝐍𝐍𝐄𝐑 𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄 ⭢ 𝖬𝖩

❦ fifteen.

: I'm ready to make that turn, before we both crash and burn... :
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☁︎ narrator ☁︎

"Don't poke my eye out, please," Loyalty joked as Michael and her were currently in her bedroom, and Michael somehow got dragged into doing her makeup. Loyalty told him she wanted to go for that "natural" look because knowing Michael, he wouldn't hesitate to go above and beyond like her face was a canvas, waiting to be fulfilled with some sort of reflection of his soul.

It was only noon and they couldn't go into the Air BnB until three, so as of right now everyone was just passing time in their own way. When Loyalty'd called Michael Thursday morning and randomly told him to pack he was confused to say the least, because this was really out of the ordinary for the Loyalty he knew.

She was being spontaneous, and he was for sure a fan of it. Loyalty had told Janet about it in advance before Michael even had the slightest detail, so it was mainly a surprise just for him even though it was both his and Janet's birthday coming up.

Slowly, more and more everyday she was openly expressing how she felt secure with Michael and that made him feel good. Like he was doing something right. During school, Michael'd only get samples of the extroverted version of Loyalty and then she would suddenly go back into her timid igloo out of anxiousness.

Which confused him at first, but seeing more of it more often was a good sign.

"Girl, bye," Michael said in reply, making her giggle while he was carefully applying her lashes with the lash tweezer. "Can't tell the artist how to do his art."

"So now I'm just a piece of art?" Loyalty feigned offense with closed eyes while he applied her right lash, "You objectifyin' me?"

"You a natural art," Michael smoothly said, "I'm jus' enhancin' it, gorgeous."

She didn't do anything but smile in reply, and when he finally got the lash rested on Loyalty's lash line she opened her eye in a figure of blinks. Picking up the pink hand mirror that sat on the surface of the vanity in her room, she inspected herself.

"You did good!" she expressed, a wide smile on her face as she examined her face like Michael's just given her a new piercing or something. Putting the mirror down on her lap, she looked at Michael as he sat across from her on a black stool she'd took from the kitchen. Her mom wasn't home and wouldn't be for awhile, and they were leaving in a little bit anyway, so it didn't matter. "Do the other one."

"I thought that was the plan already?" Michael said, standing up from the stool so he could get closer to her. Loyalty held out the pack in which the pair of lashes came in, and gave Michael the other one. Once he got the strip on the tweezers and put the glue on it, Michael briefly fanned it before towering over Loyalty and cautiously put the second lash on her left eye.

"Have you ever thought about photography?" she'd randomly asked, and while Michael adjusted the lash on her eye he furrowed his eyebrows.

"Nah, why?"

"I was jus' thinkin' 'bout how you do all the artsy stuff and create originally, but what about digitally?" she went into further explanation, and Michael delicately blew on her eye to help the glue dry. Standing up straight, Loyalty's eyes fluttered open once again and met with his. Sitting back down on the stool in front of her, Michael shook my head.