Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā j-reauā
@starsmaidenāā sent: ā stop doing that - stop trying to hide your emotions from me. ā
āIām not āā She is. She always is. Sheās Jennifer Jareau. Thereās never a time when she isnāt hiding her emotions from someone. She denies it so quickly like itās an instinct. A habit. Itās well practiced and routine. But Astoriaās right. Sheās hiding. Sheās always hiding. And somehow, Astoria Greengrass alwaysĀ makes that impossible.Ā āItās justā¦ā she doesnāt finish the sentence. JJ paces two steps the other way, hisses air through her teeth and stretches her mouth like that might ease the tension in her jaw. Her hands feel shaky and clammy in front of her. This isnāt how she usually does things. Sheās off her game ā unsteady.Ā
JJ drops her hands to her side and smoothes her palms over her pants. She wishes she had bigger robes on so she didnāt suddenly feel so small. Sheās not usually small. Sheās usually proud, held together, unshakeable. This is different. Astoriaās different. Not just because of who she is but whatĀ she is. A beautiful, wide eyed symbol of all things JJ isnāt both in temperament and things that mattered, and in blood status and things that didnāt. Things that she knowsĀ matter to Astoriaās family. They must. Theyāre one of the only pureblood families left.Ā
āI guess Iād just always wonderedā¦ā she can barely spit out the words. Some part of their friendship had always felt a little heavier. A little unspoken. Like maybe ā just maybe āĀ āIām sorry. This really isnāt about me. Your parents are talking about setting you up in some kind of marriage treaty and Iām the one with sweaty hands.ā JJ shakes her head, refocuses her attention back on Astoria, standing against the wall in the corridor they always meet in. She smoothes her hands over her own hair, tucking it behind her ears.Ā āAre youĀ okay?ā
it broke her. not the fact that she is more than likely to be married off to some guy in some sort of way of keeping the pureblood line pure and proper but the thing that had her insides twisting, her chest tightening as the words left her mothers mouth, the way her father were looking down at her, was that she knew everything is about to change. no matter how much she didnāt want it too, she knows her future is out of her hands and there is nothing she could do about it. Things will never change. Things will not change. It canāt. Itās all that kept repeating in her hand, yet it is written in the stars to do exactly that.Ā
What did this mean for their ... friendship? For whatever it is what they were. Her family tolerated this thing they had but they had always been verbally loud about how much they wished sheād move on, or make friends with other people. But how could Astoria be friends with anyone else other than ... her?Ā Ā The one person that truly understood everything about her, the one person Astoria knew she could pour her heart to and feel some form of comfort with. They are almost like they are two sides of one coin. The opposites but the same. She couldnāt let that be whipped away from her life, as it would leave her with a gaping hole where JJ belongs.Ā But when JJ speaks to her, Astoria didnāt quite hear her at first with the others words bringing her back to reality. She didnāt want to be there. She didnāt want to be anywhere. She wants to beĀ in her arms.Ā but no, she refrains.Ā
āIām fine. Why wouldnāt I be? Itās you thatās not okay. You are hiding things from me again.ā Sheās not fine but she knows she cant let the other girl know that. As much as she would love to let everything out, she knows she cant do that because if she did, she isnāt sure if sheāll be able to stop herself from breaking down. And perhaps thatās why she tries to spin things onto JJ rather than herself. āItās just funny ... I always knew this would happen. I just thought If i forgot about it, it wouldnāt ever becomeĀ Ā ...Ā Ā a reality.ā She pauses, not quite sure how to continue. How is she suppose to tell the other girl how worried she is? How nervous she is about everything? Her shoulders slump, like sheās been deflated.Ā Ā āEverything will change now, you know?ā