Text Cut: Ellie
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HaRoHeGiNeLu
No? No WHAT? She'd said nothing he needed to respond to. But, hey, if Treyen was going to go there, Ellie was following.
Woah, woah, woah. "Not "subconsciously"," she started, air quoting BACK at him, "YOU were kissed first. You had that moment to think about it. You CHOSE to kiss back." Facts. "And impulse or not...you wanted to." She didn't CARE that he did. Couldn't he just admit it? Yeah? Please?
Treyen had gotten that right, though. HE had ruined them. So, thanks for hurt on both sides, Lockhart.
...And here they were. Arguing...disagreeing...whatever again. And, actually, if felt totally and completely and wonderfully normal. And it scared her when he stood and looked at the door. Her own eyes flickered to it for a moment. She...uhm...didn't want him to leave.
Ellie swallowed, tensely watching him. "...I think you can, too." She'd totally forgive him for that.
Which probably wouldn't have held true had he apologized a few minutes ago.
WHAT?!
He looked away from her, and fought the urge to smirk, yes, smirk, because he was somewhat glad that Ellie was talking back. Even if it was an argument, it didn't matter to him. She wasn't crying, she wasn't saying 'I don't know', and she was talking
back at him. That was a change. One that, if one removed what it was all about, was a nice one.
"Yes, subconsciously," he didn't air quote this time around, but his tone was softer,
"And you just want me to say that I wanted to kiss her, well, I am NOT. Honestly, I wouldn't have if she hadn't kissed me first, so I'm choosing to go with the impulse part." There was a tone of annoyance, and he wanted to ask her to agree to disagree, but she wasn't one to accept that. Ellie wasn't going to let it go, and he couldn't blame her, because no matter what she said, she did care about what had happened, otherwise she would've let it go a while ago.
"Because that's what bothering you, isn't it? That I said, and continue to say, I didn't want to kiss her." That was all there was to this now-deemed-silly argument.
Wait, what?
There was a little sign of a small smile on his lips. He could...apologize?
"Then," he started to say, eyes completely locked on her,
"I am deeply sorry for what I've put you through, and the hurt I've caused," the softest tone ever imaginable, one that didn't go with the one from before, from the bits and pieces of argument,
"Please, forgive me for that."