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Bella moves. It's uneventful. She's not thrilled with the rain.
New kid shows up at the high school the next day. Hello, the high school. Hello, the students in the high school.
Hello, Jessica.
Jessica's very talkative. It's almost hypnotic.
"So what's Arizona like?"
"Well, sunnier."
"I bet! Wow, have you ever seen snow before?"
"On TV."
"Ha ha ha! Oh man is everybody really tan? Do you hang out at the pool all year round ogling boys?"
"I'm a little too gay to ogle boys."
"Oh! Oh wow. Okay. So um, I know this is a really small town, but guess what?" says Jessica.
"What?" asks Bella.
"We actually have a lesbian here! HEY SOLVEI!" Jessica hollers across the entire cafeteria.
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onceandforall
Jack puts his hand on her chin to tilt her head up. "You think you're really funny."
gloriousdawn
She stands up abruptly before his hand can quite reach her.
"No, I am really funny."
"No, I am really funny."
His hand hits the wall beside her face, above her shoulder, sleeve brushing her neck. "But neither of us is laughing, Solvei."
gloriousdawn
She flinches away from the incidental contact and snaps, "Don't touch me."
"Why not?" he asks. His fingers go to flick a strand of hair off her forehead. "What's wrong?"
gloriousdawn
(Incorrectly edited, that's what's wrong—this outer Solvei is the same one who was just talking to her 'sister', she knows things that she would normally never be thinking about at school—)
She dodges, as much as is possible in this limited space, and snarls wordlessly. Too afraid, too caught in the moment, to make a clever retort or engineer an escape (or recalculate her personality and find a way to smooth it over).
She dodges, as much as is possible in this limited space, and snarls wordlessly. Too afraid, too caught in the moment, to make a clever retort or engineer an escape (or recalculate her personality and find a way to smooth it over).
"Whoa," he says, "careful," and, as though he thought her dodge was a fall - he reaches to catch her in his arms.
thisbrokenworld
And her dodge becomes a fluid twist that ends in a full-force punch to his jaw.
"I said don't touch me!"
"I said don't touch me!"
He wasn't expecting that. He reels.
And now he's pissed off.
And now he's pissed off.
Instead of doing that he says, "What the hell? You hit me? What is wrong with you -"
thisbrokenworld
(trapped, back against the wall, not enough room to slip past him without incapacitating him first—)
"Yes. I hit you. Would you like me to do it again? Get out of my way."
"Yes. I hit you. Would you like me to do it again? Get out of my way."
"What the hell? I never hurt a hair on your head -"
thisbrokenworld
"When somebody says 'don't touch me', you do not touch them," says the person usually known as Solvei. "Maybe next time you'll remember. Now fuck off."
"I barely - you hit me, you little bitch -"
He advances. That isn't the same thing as fucking off, is it?
He advances. That isn't the same thing as fucking off, is it?
thisbrokenworld
It is not!
She looks up at him with an unsettling little grin. (Try it, just try it, give her somewhere to put all this rage and pain...)
She looks up at him with an unsettling little grin. (Try it, just try it, give her somewhere to put all this rage and pain...)
He reaches for her hair again. Less of a brush and more of a grab.
"Calm the hell down!" he snaps.
He's not a very obedient person.
He closes her in a little tighter, gritting his teeth.
He closes her in a little tighter, gritting his teeth.
thisbrokenworld
Close enough now that she can brace herself against the back wall of the niche and shove him away with both hands. She's surprisingly strong, for such a tiny girl.
"You're nuts," he snarls, and then he fucks off.
thisbrokenworld
There is no way on God's green earth she could possibly put a lid on this right now and go back to being Solvei for the afternoon.
But Solvei would never just skip half a day of class for no reason at all.
But she can't go to class, she just came within a hair's breadth of outright trying to kill a guy, she is not safe to be around right now.
She can at least get out of this niche and find a different place to be isolated where running away will be a feasible option if somebody gets in her space.
She walks away, paying close attention to her surroundings.
But Solvei would never just skip half a day of class for no reason at all.
But she can't go to class, she just came within a hair's breadth of outright trying to kill a guy, she is not safe to be around right now.
She can at least get out of this niche and find a different place to be isolated where running away will be a feasible option if somebody gets in her space.
She walks away, paying close attention to her surroundings.
Her surroundings, being nature and rain and school architecture, totally ignore her in return.