It's not like when they were influenced by the spa β first, him, holding fast to her hand and asking her to stay with him in much this same way, but then he'd offered her the same, when she'd needed the physical contact herself. Now, however, neither of them are under such a stipulation, and given it was his shadow that had attacked her, he might have expected her to be ready for a break from him for a good while.
That's usually how it goes, when he wears out his welcome, when being around him becomes too much for others. When he is too much.
Stay.
Something playful rests on the back of his tongue, but he isn't in the mood to even entertain it, instead offering a softened smile as he winds his fingers around her own and sinks down onto the edge of her bed. ]
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It's not like when they were influenced by the spa β first, him, holding fast to her hand and asking her to stay with him in much this same way, but then he'd offered her the same, when she'd needed the physical contact herself. Now, however, neither of them are under such a stipulation, and given it was his shadow that had attacked her, he might have expected her to be ready for a break from him for a good while.
That's usually how it goes, when he wears out his welcome, when being around him becomes too much for others. When he is too much.
Stay.
Something playful rests on the back of his tongue, but he isn't in the mood to even entertain it, instead offering a softened smile as he winds his fingers around her own and sinks down onto the edge of her bed. ]
Okay. I'm here for as long as you want me to be.