[She doesn't expect a response and receiving one is like getting hit or getting kissed. Her heart has been broken forever months, it shouldn't be a fresh shock to feel it break again over a handful of words. Is he doing that on purpose? Maybe Leonard was right in every way. Maybe Bruce can't help it any more than she can.
Instead of writing back, she goes out to a party with friends. She drinks more than she should, doesn't write anyone anything ill-advised and honest, and when the clock strikes midnight she thinks of him too and hates herself a little for it. It's a few days before she can pull together something human to say to him, something safer than the stingers behind her eyes or all the barbs behind her teeth.]
I didn't want a tree this year, so, snake plant it is. It's an evergreen, just not a conifer. Good for atmospheric toxins, though. I'm repainting.
Betty
['I thought of you too' - but he knows. He doesn't deserve the monster in her, but she thinks, for him, for them, the rest is just as bad. Better hopelessly inadequate than a poison.]
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evermonths, it shouldn't be a fresh shock to feel it break again over a handful of words. Is he doing that on purpose? Maybe Leonard was right in every way. Maybe Bruce can't help it any more than she can.Instead of writing back, she goes out to a party with friends. She drinks more than she should, doesn't write anyone anything ill-advised and honest, and when the clock strikes midnight she thinks of him too and hates herself a little for it. It's a few days before she can pull together something human to say to him, something safer than the stingers behind her eyes or all the barbs behind her teeth.]
I didn't want a tree this year, so, snake plant it is. It's an evergreen, just not a conifer. Good for atmospheric toxins, though. I'm repainting.
Betty
['I thought of you too' - but he knows. He doesn't deserve the monster in her, but she thinks, for him, for them, the rest is just as bad. Better hopelessly inadequate than a poison.]