untitled || alice & dave
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Alice thinks it’s cute, the way Dave looks at her. It’s an innocent kind of endearing gleam in his eyes that she can’t exactly pinpoint the source of. She thinks it’s kind of adorable — not because of her “vanity,” or because of some schoolboy crush he might eventually develop on her, or because of the way his eyes look bigger through his glasses. It’s because of the way he looks at her face, and not at her body, or her hands, or her fucking criminal record. It’s a relief, at least for now, to have somebody who sees her for what she is on the surface, and maybe even just a little bit deeper than that. Just a little.
She smiles when Dave looks away, and she takes a nibble of his her sandwich and swallows.
“Yeah. I’m over on Galia Drive. Just moved in last week.”
It’s easy — and actually satisfying, dare she think it — to talk about it like her parole officer didn’t spend three weeks just trying to find a place for sale within a one-mile radius of a public school. God, she hates that prick. And his pedophile mustache.
Alice pauses to take another bite of her lunch, and she grins at him as she drops it onto her styrofoam tray. She props elbows up on the lunch table and lowers her chin into her hands, gazing at him with big, wide, sarcastic eyes.
“So, you’re not new here? Think you could help me find room 247?”
"Well, wel--"
There's a pause.
Then a longer pause as he quickly chews on his mouthful, and swallows.
"Welcome to the neighborhood, then!"
Perhaps welcome isn't the best word to use, considering everything that happened recently -- Justice Forever, decapitations, the Motherfucker, decapitations, Toxic Mega Cunts, decapitations.
Regardless, it's the word he uses.
He takes another bite of his sandwich and chews quickly as she speaks again, and -- oh, okay, lettuce slipping out the end of his sandwich okay——— ———and it's saved.
"Yeah, no, not new here at all. Oh, man. I don't know."
"Halfsies on lunch and being your tour guide? That might be too much. What am I? A superhero?"










