#thread. river

   well this was awkward.   river had frozen in the kitchen doorway, keys dangling from her fingers, when she spotted andrea sitting at the island tapping away at her computer. when she hadn't seen her dad's car in the driveway, she had assumed he was working late again. for once, she would have been grateful for that, not wanting to discuss why she was home instead of at her mother's. she wouldn't have to explain the slightly red, puffy gaze. except there was andrea, & they were staring at one another like neither of them knew what to do next. finally, river slowly raised a hand to wave at her father's girlfriend, though a smile didn't reach her lips. i hear the whispers in your eyes. ❛ hey . . . you know my dad's not home right ? ❜

  there were a lot of reasons river didn't have many girlfriends, & this situation happened to be one of them.  she had no idea how someone was supposed to respond to a cheating boyfriend ( was it cheating ? she wasn't really sure ). sympathizing was hard enough when she did have an idea of appropriate responses. she was, admittedly, thankful that yasmine left shortly thereafter & not because river didn't want her there but because she was getting overwhelmed trying to figure it out. fingers ran over monet's fur while a movie played before them, but river was hardly paying attention. ❛ --- is she going to be okay ? she reamed him out on that call, but isn't she like . . . sad ? ❜ river would have been sad had she been in that position, but she couldn't imagine her boyfriend ever doing such a thing. ❛ i didn't really know what to say. ❜

  river didn't look up from her sketchbook though her brow furrowed.  ❛ what the fuck is a goose convention ? is it a farm thing ? i don't . . . ❜ she wouldn't put it past moon to go to some sort of weird animal convention, preaching about saving the cows and what not. she was a total bleeding heart like that. the more she thought, however, of the exact words that left her best friend's mouth, her pencil paused mid shade and she tossed a look over her shoulder to the bed on the other side of the room. ❛ i am NOT a silly goose ! i'm a realist. YOU'RE the silly goose. don't you have homework to do ?! ❜ she turned back towards her desk, though her focus was all sorts of thrown off now. moon had sufficiently frazzled her. ❛ tori has not been looking at me however you think she has. she's just friendly. ❜