One hand curls too tight around the handle of the kettle and they're staring, now, but it— it can't be that simple. It's never that simple. Why isn't he saying anything else? There's a thousand things, bitter or otherwise, lining up on the tip of their tongue and they're meant to be good at this, but they can't just repeat the same mistakes after something like that. But nothing fits.
They don't say, "now? you want to do this now?" They don't say, "wow, you actually have hair under there." They don't say— ]
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One hand curls too tight around the handle of the kettle and they're staring, now, but it— it can't be that simple. It's never that simple. Why isn't he saying anything else? There's a thousand things, bitter or otherwise, lining up on the tip of their tongue and they're meant to be good at this, but they can't just repeat the same mistakes after something like that. But nothing fits.
They don't say, "now? you want to do this now?"
They don't say, "wow, you actually have hair under there."
They don't say— ]