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She opens her eyes.
Lynne, April, Ari, and Tintin in the Good Place
bornlucky
"We need screens up here. At least around the tub, at least until we're comfortable with each other. We also need curtains. White curtains preferably, don't want to mess up the façade, but curtains."
good-people-don't-end-up-here
"Curtains will interrupt the natural light," Janet says. "And you don't actually want screens."
good-people-don't-end-up-here
"Fine. You don't have to bully me."
Screens and curtains. Vanishment of Janet.
never-needed-love
Chantal looks somewhat less terrified.
"...thank you," she says. "Sorry. I shouldn't—sorry."
bornlucky
"You shouldn't what? Not be as much of a compulsive exhibitionist as I was when I was eight years old?"
never-needed-love
"—if this is the house you wanted I don't want to—get in the way—it wouldn't be fair, just because I'm—being silly about things—"
bornlucky
"I wouldn't describe anything you've done today as 'silly'. I'm not going to deny that it'd be nice to live without worrying about who sees who naked. You know what else would be nice? Living without worrying that I'm making my soulmate desperately uncomfortable."
bornlucky
"Do you want to go over your furniture opinions, or do you want to take a nap while I sample cream soda, or do you want to put the bed through its paces, or what? I'm open for anything."
never-needed-love
She does not quite successfully prevent her face from indicating that 'putting the bed through its paces' is possibly the thing she wants least out of all things she could possibly have right now up to and including spontaneous combustion.
"...maybe I'll have a nap," she says, because you know what sounds great right now? Not having experiences. Not having experiences sounds like her best option in this scenario by a long shot.
bornlucky
"Cool," he says, not quite managing to hide his disappointment at his soulmate's apparent revulsion. "I'll just... occupy myself."
never-needed-love
She is going to curl up in this terrifying bed and have a sad awful nap like the sad awful person she is.
bornlucky
And Ari is going to drink some cream soda and wonder how he could possibly have been soulmated to a girl who doesn't even want him.
"Janet?" he asks.
good-people-don't-end-up-here
"Well. Today is the worst day of the rest of your life, and all that."
