A RED blush of embarrassment flushed her pale cheeks, a look of complete shock painted her once gracious fingers but a bat her lash & everything was wiped away. They were grieving, & it was quite normal for one to lash out… Mami silently chastised herself, for she was warned that he was the most difficult among the bunch. Isolated mainly, often snappy with remarks but always alone. Death was a difficult thing to deal with, but if perhaps some other emotion was hidden behind such deceptive features, then that would call for a whole new set of precautions.
INSTEAD of moving on, she knelt beside him & quietly scanned the room,
pursing her lips in thought.
’ I WAS told that maybe if they were to talk someone more their age…. you & the others would open up more. Qualification has very little to do with your recovery, & many people are worried about you. While I will talk to H later about that, right now I would like to speak to you… is that alright ? ’
“I WOULD ARGUE THAT QUALIFICATION has a lot to do with it. I could try taking advantage of you, knowing you’re not fit for the job.”
THERE was little hesitance in his voice, nor was there any sort of entertainment in his explanation. He was not interested in a therapy session with someone as sickeningly sweet and clingy, and had little reason to put down his comics for the sake of playing along to make her feel better.
AND there was less of a point in trying to do so, just to get her off his back, when it had been made clear, to both Wammy and the other Letters, that of all the children in this orphanage, B was deviant and unusual, and thus, was expected to pull this sort of strange attitude. Whether he was actually upset or not was something they could only agree on through a coin toss. A behavioral pattern foreign to them was not worth examining at all, when it had become so normalized through living with him.
“THE only thing people are worried about is that I’ll do something that they can’t comprehend. My feelings don’t really matter, and me being upset won’t bring A back. And I should hope not, because his corpse has probably experienced skin slippage by now and I’d really rather not see something like that running after me.”
“YOU can talk to me, if that makes your job easier, but it doesn’t really mean I’ll care to respond.”
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