Danny thought he'd seen the last of those smiles, if he's honest. If only he'd realized sooner that all it would take is declining half a Kit Kat bar to put that look on Mindy's face.
At the second or third glance from her, he feels sufficiently scrutinized into opening his mouth again, even though he's enjoying the quiet. But avoidance hasn't gotten him much so far; in fact, it's lost him more than he started with and Mindy deserves some kind of explanation. So it's with an uneasy bite of his lower lip that he says: "Listen."
The whirring that had died a death twenty minutes ago suddenly leaps back to life, metal grinding and pulleys straining as the elevator slowly awakens. "Listen," he repeats in an entirely different tone, looking up, too insecure to try and keep a hold of the moment. "Freedom."
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Date: 2014-10-10 03:35 pm (UTC)At the second or third glance from her, he feels sufficiently scrutinized into opening his mouth again, even though he's enjoying the quiet. But avoidance hasn't gotten him much so far; in fact, it's lost him more than he started with and Mindy deserves some kind of explanation. So it's with an uneasy bite of his lower lip that he says: "Listen."
The whirring that had died a death twenty minutes ago suddenly leaps back to life, metal grinding and pulleys straining as the elevator slowly awakens. "Listen," he repeats in an entirely different tone, looking up, too insecure to try and keep a hold of the moment. "Freedom."