sweetmotherofgod: (Jesus God in Heaven)
Heather Mason ([personal profile] sweetmotherofgod) wrote in [personal profile] handelaar 2013-01-08 08:16 pm (UTC)

[Whatever he had been going to say, she's taking it to mean the same thing as what had happened with the bike, which she'd asked for when she was still flush-cheeked and giddy on what might have been. So there's a beat where she drops her eyes to the floor, but then he's holding it out to her and - well.

She takes it, not exactly gingerly but a little more slowly than she ordinarily might. Skims a hand over the wooden cover, gentle fingertips over the twine bindings, but when she finally opens it she goes still again, a sharp little inhale.

It's nothing she'd ever have thought she wanted, not something she'd ask for, but now that it's here in her hands it's perfect and that's a familiar feeling that ought to be a kick in the gut but she's too busy poring over those beautiful illustrations and the careful shapes of his handwriting to make the connection. Lost in it to the point where her quiet is actually pretty rude before she remembers to respond.]


I - this is -

If I hug you right now, would that be okay?

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