[Allison blinks a couple times...then goes very still, eyes widening.
OH. Ohhhhhh, Iris...
Her eyes shift side to side, but she carefully says nothing. Because if she pretends she didn't hear that, she can treat it like she would the idea of her parents having sex: as a thing that didn't happen because the stork left her on the doorstep with postage due fresh from the cabbage patch, and that is how she copes with reality.
She instead focuses on the rest...and she feels so unsure it's almost painful. Still, it's not worse than what she knows now, and she lowers her gaze, wringing her hands fretfully.]
I just don't know if I'm...good for him. [And she desperately wants to be.]>/small>
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OH. Ohhhhhh, Iris...
Her eyes shift side to side, but she carefully says nothing. Because if she pretends she didn't hear that, she can treat it like she would the idea of her parents having sex: as a thing that didn't happen because the stork left her on the doorstep with postage due fresh from the cabbage patch, and that is how she copes with reality.
She instead focuses on the rest...and she feels so unsure it's almost painful. Still, it's not worse than what she knows now, and she lowers her gaze, wringing her hands fretfully.]
I just don't know if I'm...good for him. [And she desperately wants to be.]>/small>