❛ i wonder why we always meet on the edge of things. ❜ (rose @walkedhorror)
" i dunno, 'cause i like the view up here?" she tries for a smile but it doesn't feel honest, there's pain and worry that keeps the corners of her mouth from reaching too high. so they shrug and look out at the skyline, legs dangling over the side of the roof, absently playing with the ends of her hair.
it's been ––– gods only know how long it's been, a lifetime at the very least, since she last saw rose. little has changed, everything has, and there's not enough time to play catch up.
an omen that gen welcomes, she motions with her head for the other to sit next to her. "or 'cause the gods have shit humor?" they glance up at the sky, lean back on their hands, wait for a sign that she's said too much and nothing. "maybe it's just, y'know, fate. like maybe there ain't really a reason, i don't know, you're the one who does the knowin'."
finally a smile, it's not forced it's not pained it just is . "i shouldn't be happy t'see you but as always, i ain't actually mad. i'm –––" they're sad, goes unsaid but a flicker in her eyes, a catch in her voice, they didn't get as much time this go around and gen can't blame rose for it, never would even if she could, "sorry you still gotta hang around."
they feel, even after so much time, a weight of guilt for how things happened. if she had just tried harder, had said it was a stupid idea, hadn't agreed ––– "sorry i uhm, I don't actually wanna talk sad shit, not yet. we've got time for that later. so like, how long you think this time will take? where we goin? if y'say we gotta hit up the royals again i swear –––" gen grins, now, it's slow, but it's real .
