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    allie was surprised to see genevive at her door, but then again, she was not – it wasn’t unusual for her friend to blip out for a while and then pop right back up. “hey !!” she greeted with a wide smile as she opened the door, carrying her baby with her free hand. “oh, god, it’s been ages !! i’m so happy to see you. come on in !!” the young actress offered, stepping to the side to let the other through.

genevieve felt her cheeks growing warmer as he said he trusted her but her smile never faltered  .  studying him as he took a seat in front of her she slowly moved closer so she’d reach his face  ,  hesitantely placing a delicate hand on his jaw to tilt his head to one side  ,  trying to focus more on the painting aspect of things and less on the holding his face  side of them  .  at least they had her never ending rambling to keep them entertained  ,  and she couldn’t help laughing at his words  .  “  i think that would be for the best  ,  yes  .  there’s a very good chance either of us would end up hurt and it would definitely be my fault  .  ”  she nodded  ,  taking the brush and dipping it slightly in a little jar of paint  .  “  so  ,  i’m taking no one has punched anyone in the house  ?  ”  she smiled  ,  looking back at his eyes for a second before her attention shifted once more  .

“  do you wanna try your luck on the chair  ?  ”  she questioned with a teasing smile  ,  nodding towards the chair she had in front of her where the kids hadbeen sitting down before saying they wanted to be spiderman or  ,  somehow  ,  george washington  ,  an actual request she had no idea how to pull through  .  “  do you trust me  ?  i promise i won’t draw anything embarrassing  .  “  she assured him  ,  even when that sounded exactly like what someone would say just before drawing something embarrassing  .

“  you think  ?  i mean  ,  i would agree but only because i hate haunted houses  .  my dad loves them  ,  so he used to make me get in with them and whenever people would jump out and scream to scare him he would just scream back at them  .  ”  she laughed to herself as she remembered her trips to those attractions with him  .  “  me on the other hand  ?  when i was 13 a guy jumped out from behind a door to scare me and i accidentally punched him on the nose  .  never again  ,  i’m a safety hazard  .  ”

part of genevieve  ,  the insecure part  ,  told her that it had been one moment in time  ,  and once they both got back into their lives after their impromptu work session he’d forget about her much like any cool guy in literally any high school movie  .  it wasn’t like she didn’t expect any better from him  ,  she simply didn’t expect any better for her  ,  so finding him there put a brilliant smile on an already cheery face  .  “  i do think you’d make for a dashing carrot man  .  ”  gen giggled  ,  appreciating his costume as he waved his cape  .  “  how’s the haunted house going  ?  "  she wondered  ,  turning her attention for a second on the paint brush she was cleaning now that she had no kids waiting to get their faces painted  .

         he  jumped  back  a  few  steps  as  the  girl  shouts,  a  short  yelp  leaving  his  lips  despite  realizing  she  isn’t  much  of  a  threat  a few  moments  later.  “  whew,  you  freakin’  scared  me  there.”  he  says  in  a  laugh,  shaking  his  head  softly.  “ no,  no..  you’re  sorry? it’s  not  your  fault. i’m  so  so  sorry !!  ”  the  boy  exclaims,  finally  stepping  towards  her  again. “oh,  not  on  the  new  suit,”  he  frowns,  trying  to  reach  for  the  piece  of  popcorn. “thanks  for  telling  me.  i  would’ve  walked  around  the  whole  day  looking  like  an  idiot.”  

                “in that case, let me take it all back,” milena teased lightheartedly, smiling at how comfortably the two could always ease back into their friendship no matter how much time had passed. busy schedules and commitments got in the way, but it was nice to know that she could always rely on her friendship with genevieve to be a strong constant. “yeah, it was just like that,” she recalled with an adoring smile that appeared whenever she thought about rhett. “we met at a party and i’m pretty sure i didn’t talk to anyone else that night. hedefinitely caught me by surprise – but the best surprise. and, i’m kind of glad that i met him thinking we would never work because there was no pressure. whatever happened,happened, and he turned out to be this incredible person.” she chuckled hesitantly as she tucked a lock of hair behind her ear before playing with the locket around her neck out of habit. “i mean, i hope you don’t,” milena said honestly, unsure of how she, herself, would react to hearing one of her friends had kept something from her for this long. “but, rhett and i have actually been hiding for almost three years now, so… not exactly a new boyfriend.”

               “and what if i am,” milena replied with raised eyebrows, as if challenging genevieve to try and come up with a counterargument. in her eyes, her friend was just as incredible and talented. she just wished gen saw it in herself and her own voice, the same way the other had encouraged milena to make the leap from skating to music in the first place. she laughed at her friend’s description of rhett, though there wasn’t much to argue with there. “honestly? i flat out said he wasn’t my type before we met,” she admitted with a chuckle, shaking her head at the way life seemed to work out on its own. “but i’ve never been happier to be proven wrong.” the dark-haired singer didn’t handle being wrong well, but this was one thing she could concede to. “can i actually tell you something? promise you won’t be mad?” she hesitated, smile faltering slightly with the guilt from hiding something so monumental from one of her good friends over the years.