Roommates. They had been more than just roommates; everyone knew. From the way they looked at one another, the small subtle touches ( fingers brushing, pinky fingers curled around one another, legs brushing as they sat near one another, ) and in how they spoke of the other. Anyone who had the misfortune of being in the same room as the pair knew that something was going on between them.
They became the talk of Nevermore, little whispers here and there, but again everyone knew. Except them. In their eyes, they were roommates and friends that were intimate with one another from time to time. They didn’t know that there was something more that resided in one another as they assumed that that particular feeling resided in their individual selves. An unspoken feeling that grew and bloomed like roses in the spring, but they didn’t know. And there had been no move made by the dove in finding out, not when others fawned over the raven and her popularity rose.
Everyone knew, even she knew it. Before Morticia Frump, there had been Vivian Rashard, a siren that attempted to lure Larissa Weems into the deepest waters. Unlike her roommate, the siren and shapeshifter had dated, had been out in the open, but when the ship that she tried so desperately to keep afloat began to drift further away, Vivian abused her siren song. Larissa had been too smart and caught on, ending things with the other girl and that would leave a bitterness in the other that would grow when the shifter turned her attention towards Morticia.
And as the roses began to blossom and flourish, like a pestilence the siren began to plant doubt in the shapeshifters mind when she caught sight of a fourth player entering the game; Gomez Addams. He looked at Morticia the same way that her roommate had and the siren took notice and used it in an attempt to recapture the taller girls attention. So she spun a song that would leave Larissa Weems filled with the same bitterness that the siren had harbored. Unfortunately, Morticia Frump played a hand in all of this, unknowingly of course, as she attempted to get a rise out of her roommate, to see if there were shared feelings. Instead, it backfired and from that moment, they went their separate ways.
Leaving both with an unanswered question that would remain in the back of their minds for twenty-five years; did she ever love me too?
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