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[constellationprize]

Hi! This is ☆radia! I'm really sorry I wasn't able to answer your call... Um, if you need anything, it's fine to leave a message here! I'll answer you as soon as I can!
 

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Re: day 185 evening

[constellationprize]

[ shakes her head

except now that she's got everything in the pot there's nothing to do but wait and talk to him, so she shuffles her feet in front of the oven, not wanting to turn and look at him ]

He didn't do anything.

Re: day 185 evening

[avestan]

Bullshit. If he didn't, you'd have no reason to avoid Ruler.

Re: day 185 evening

[constellationprize]

[ .............................................. ]

It's just . . .

[ another fairly lengthy pause, as she seems to be actively trying to think up a good lie ]

. . . After missing that day, and... you know, I never thought of what to give him, so - . . . I don't really know how to face him...

[ punctuated with a laugh, because she's totally ok and that's totally a thing that she does when she's ok ]

Re: day 185 evening

[avestan]

[...sigh]

I get that you don't wanna tell you. I mean, I didn't tell you either, so it's just fair. But you could just say that instead of lying.

Re: day 185 evening

[constellationprize]

It isn't - ...

You shouldn't be worrying about me, but it isn't really a lie either...

Re: day 185 evening

[avestan]

Uh huh.

[tears open the wrapper on a chocolate bar and takes a big bite]

Re: day 185 evening

[constellationprize]

... It isn't. We . . .

... Leaving him alone on that day...

Re: day 185 evening

[avestan]

I specifically told him I'd see him later that day. Obviously I didn't.

Re: day 185 evening

[constellationprize]

It wasn't your anniversary. That's in thirteen days.

Re: day 185 evening

[avestan]

...Wait, what? It is?

Re: day 185 evening

[constellationprize]

... The day that you kissed him was sixteen days after our wedding, wasn't it? I think that was when you told me about it...

... That means that, relative to today, with the way that time works here, thirteen days will make a year.

Re: day 185 evening

[avestan]

Oh.

[completely distracted from the point he was trying to make earlier]

That's... not at all the same as a wedding anniversary, though.

Re: day 185 evening

[constellationprize]

Isn't it the same? It's the day your relationship started to become what it is now, isn't it?

Re: day 185 evening

[avestan]

[with sudden sharpness:]

-It's not the same!

Re: day 185 evening

[constellationprize]

[ startles, dropping the ladle - as she turns to look at him finally, worried ]

Re: day 185 evening

[avestan]

[he's staring at her, expression somewhere between fury and distress, and he's shaking]

You don't get to say something like that so easily when you already married him.

Re: day 185 evening

[constellationprize]

[ ah ]

... Sorry...

Re: day 185 evening

[avestan]

[takes a deep breath, then looks away]

...So it's not like you have anything to worry about.

Re: day 185 evening

[constellationprize]

[ slowly... picking up the ladle, before moving to hug him ]

Re: day 185 evening

[avestan]

[tense in her arms, still not looking at her]

Re: day 185 evening

[constellationprize]

[ just lifts a hand to start stroking his hair, tentatively, skittish ]

Re: day 185 evening

[avestan]

[slowly, slowly starts to relax into the touch, just a little]

Re: day 185 evening

[constellationprize]

[ working her fingers into his scalp slowly, just staying quiet. she doesn't know what to say, so - it's better that she doesn't, she thinks.

but eventually he can hear her murmuring another apology, or something along those lines. ]

Re: day 185 evening

[avestan]

...Don't. I don't wanna hear that you're sorry.

Re: day 185 evening

[constellationprize]

[ goes quiet then, stiffening awkwardly

what is she supposed to say if she can't apologize. she has no idea ]