09-03-2020, 06:31 PM
The impatience around them did not rally her to move, nor even acknowledge those who waited. The world might burn to ruin in her peripheral, and she would choose to see nothing else. That one word stuck with her like a thread tied around her heart. Natalie let the moment linger, not accepting it as a promise, but letting its soft wings enfold her all the same.
Finally, she offered half a smirk for the banter.
Inside, though, her heart ached as she watched him go.
“You’re lucky I didn’t make a scene,” she said once in the confines of her own car. “Does my mother know you’re here? I imagine I'm in enough trouble without adding fucking absconding to the list.” Her tone drew blood-letting sharp. Emotions burst to anger with only a little provocation; not at her driver, particularly, but his smirking expression was as good a target as any for her roiling frustration. Natalie boxed the emotions away with a grit of her teeth. She did not watch the other cars pull away through the tinted windows.
He shrugged at her through the rearview mirror. “We’re just going on a detour. No one will even know you were missing.”
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Finally, she offered half a smirk for the banter.
Inside, though, her heart ached as she watched him go.
“You’re lucky I didn’t make a scene,” she said once in the confines of her own car. “Does my mother know you’re here? I imagine I'm in enough trouble without adding fucking absconding to the list.” Her tone drew blood-letting sharp. Emotions burst to anger with only a little provocation; not at her driver, particularly, but his smirking expression was as good a target as any for her roiling frustration. Natalie boxed the emotions away with a grit of her teeth. She did not watch the other cars pull away through the tinted windows.
He shrugged at her through the rearview mirror. “We’re just going on a detour. No one will even know you were missing.”
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