[ Stupid, and silly, and dangerous as it might be, it's fun, too. Harmless, really. Which is why whatever she was expecting back for her tiny press at his barely calling her on her words, it wasn't this response. It wasn't suddenly feeling her chest hollow and her throat dry. In a snap. It wasn't a shift back to that stupid answer.
That should matter even less. But suddenly makes it feel almost impossible to breathe. The number. And the absolutely throw way 'obviouslness' he dismisses it with. That it takes a second to even figure out how to swallow past. ]
Flatterer.
[ Is she vain enough to care? Sure. A little. Maybe even a little too much. Because it is Luther. But, maybe, even vainer about the fact it's the rest of her, that isn't her makeup or her clothes, that Luther sees, too. ]
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That should matter even less. But suddenly makes it feel almost impossible to breathe.
The number. And the absolutely throw way 'obviouslness' he dismisses it with.
That it takes a second to even figure out how to swallow past. ]
Flatterer.
[ Is she vain enough to care? Sure. A little. Maybe even a little too much. Because it is Luther.
But, maybe, even vainer about the fact it's the rest of her, that isn't her makeup or her clothes, that Luther sees, too. ]