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Everything inside of him wanted to jump at the invitation - an impulse that Silas was sure wasn’t a good thing. But, then again, she had said that Aria wasn’t around and really, didn’t that mean he was safe? As long as Allegra was the one to invite him to sit down and her big sister wasn’t going to bust out of nowhere and kill him, what was really the harm? So, despite his better knowledge, he let his book bag drop and pulled out a chair, sliding into it across from the girl.Â
“I don’t want to bother you or anything. Just saw you and figured I would see how you were doing. There was a lot going on at that dance it seems, not sure if you were really following all of it.” He had never been much of a gossip, but when you had nothing else to do, it was pretty easy to keep your ear to the ground and pick up on a few loudly whispered conversations. “You’re probably glad that you’re not the oldest child, huh? Not having to deal with all the…social stuff.” A touchy subject, sure, but it was out of his mouth before he really had a chance to stop it. “Sorry I meant - just royals and family connections and expectations, you know?”
Ally had spent a lot of her life thinking about what it might be to be in her sister’s shoes. She was so proud of her, so enthralled by her strength, the courage it took to make all those decisions. She shook her head, feeling relaxed now that she felt like things were at least not as tense between her and Silas.
“Silas, it’s not a bother,” she offered him a gentle smile and shook her head. “I don’t...want to be hostile anymore. I don’t want to feel like that. I hated how I felt about you and how I still feel about you. But I’m not going to let it ruin my days anymore. We were really good friends. There’s no harm in being that again.”
“Aria has a lot of strength. I don’t think I have the smarts to do that honest. Like I’m smart, really smart, but I’m not intelligent in the way I should be to be a leader. All the politics. I just want to be happy one day with the person I love.”