[It soothes his frayed nerves, really, the way she laughs. Even if he knows she puts up just as much of a face as he does, as he was, that she wasn't treating him differently for being obviously out of sorts somehow made him feel secure in a way he wasn't sure he'd ever known.]
[And then he realizes what he said, and in conjunction with her respond he forgets the state of calm he'd started to slide into. His jaw drops open just a little and he stammers, tapping his glass to hers and hurriedly reclaiming it, downing about half of it in one go in a sheer effort to not speak.]
[Fuck. Why did he say that? Why did she say that in response? Why did-- nope. No?? No. He backslid, gracelessly, into a fumbling disaster and laughed an ugly sort of sound before he realized and thought to stop himself.]
Except I'm not-- really. Sometimes I know how to talk, but I'm nowhere near good for you.
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[It soothes his frayed nerves, really, the way she laughs. Even if he knows she puts up just as much of a face as he does, as he was, that she wasn't treating him differently for being obviously out of sorts somehow made him feel secure in a way he wasn't sure he'd ever known.]
[And then he realizes what he said, and in conjunction with her respond he forgets the state of calm he'd started to slide into. His jaw drops open just a little and he stammers, tapping his glass to hers and hurriedly reclaiming it, downing about half of it in one go in a sheer effort to not speak.]
[Fuck. Why did he say that? Why did she say that in response? Why did-- nope. No?? No. He backslid, gracelessly, into a fumbling disaster and laughed an ugly sort of sound before he realized and thought to stop himself.]
Except I'm not-- really. Sometimes I know how to talk, but I'm nowhere near good for you.