#cindykimbrly

There is something to be said about finding something that was once beautiful in ruins. For a moment, Delilah wonders what the people who built the Colosseum would say if they saw it today. She would say the words if she knew. Flynn looks at her, and the landmarks are the same; his eyes still look like the color of grass when the sun shines, his hair still falls in his eyes, and, yep, his hand still reaches up to swipe it across his forehead. Delilah doesn’t know why she feels like she is navigating a new home, where she doesn’t know where the cups and plates are kept, and doesn’t know that the second step creaks and groans under the weight of a body. She’s never been this angry with him, and it makes him unrecognizable. “My problem?” She sputters in disbelief. “It’s not me with the problem here, you’re the idiot who thinks there’s something going on between me and Norton! We’re just friends! We’ve always been friends, and I don’t know where this is coming from so you tell me, Flynn.” It isn’t that he’s insinuating something between her and Shaggy; it’s that he thinks Delilah would ever look at any other boy the way she looks at Flynn. “So what, I’m not allowed to just be friends with guys now? Are you going to be that guy now, Flynn? Because I sure as hell am not gonna be that girl,” she said fiercely, and she knows, knows but doesn’t want to, that she is still soft for him. That if he strung his words correctly, she would be that girl. Delilah knows she’s at fault for deliberately flirting with Shaggy after Flynn was obviously uncomfortable with their friendship, but she was so angry with Flynn for thinking she would ever be unfaithful. Now here they were, standing in the ruins of something that was once beautiful. He was once beautiful to her; sometimes when he smiles, he still is. “I would have done anything for you, Flynn, but god, this? This is too much, even for you. If this is how it’s gonna be, then maybe,” she paused, wondered if this was something she was willing to let go of, “maybe it’s not fucking worth it anymore.”