She feels like a total, proper mess. She looks ragged โย split ends, hair in a loose and unkempt bun, it's been about three days since she changed her clothes, she swears the little red patch on her chin is a breakout in the making, and sleep is just totally, utterly, completely, absurdly, non-existent. Who talked her into this whole have a baby thing? As if recognizing this internally sounded cue, there comes that voice: "I'm falling in love with you every day." @arachbit's words make her breath hitch, a simply instinctive action that doesn't often happen to ready-for-anything MJ Watson. Simultaneously a cool sort of relief washes over her, settling her muscles, nearly making her drop the baby bottle in hand. For a moment she is not vomit, drool & food-covered.
Classic smile spreads like wildfire; call it exhaustion or hormones or just the fact she loves Peter Parker with every ounce of her own body weight, whatever it might be, the girl melts. โ Sweet-talker, โ she calls him, though the playful chastisement is unmatched to the sincerity of her reaction. There were times, back in the old days, haunting the Bean and dancing wild to the hottest tunes she could dig up on their janky old jukebox, that she figured herself a bit second-class. A stunning admittance, really, for a gal like her ย โย she was less the fall-in-love type, more the sweet-little-fling kind. Folks she danced with stayed for a song, not an album. All she wanted, and she didn't want it with a single other soul, was for Peter Parker to listen to the full record.
โ You're not shaping up to leave for the day after getting a girl's hopes up like that, are you? โ