There's that keen look in her eyes again, peeling away at his layers until he feels like a naked heart beating in the open air. He's too cowardly to look directly at her when she searches him that way and he wonders how that affects her judgement of him.
Her response is no true surprise, in content or in tone, though the harshness of it does startle him into looking to her. His light brown eyes look like warm honey in the dying light.
"Forgive me if I placed unfair expectations on you." He means that, too. Mockery is nowhere to be found. "I did not mean to place you on a pedestal you don't want." She's surely had more than enough of that in her lifetime.
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Date: 2021-03-18 10:12 pm (UTC)There's that keen look in her eyes again, peeling away at his layers until he feels like a naked heart beating in the open air. He's too cowardly to look directly at her when she searches him that way and he wonders how that affects her judgement of him.
Her response is no true surprise, in content or in tone, though the harshness of it does startle him into looking to her. His light brown eyes look like warm honey in the dying light.
"Forgive me if I placed unfair expectations on you." He means that, too. Mockery is nowhere to be found. "I did not mean to place you on a pedestal you don't want." She's surely had more than enough of that in her lifetime.