❝ i got you gifts! ❞ shade exclaims, holding her hands out in front of holly. she presented her with a a shiny gold bottle cap, a feather she had found on the ground but it was a really cool feather okay, and a gumball she had just bought.
“ oh, you didn’t have t … “ the sentence dies in holly’s throat as her thickly - mascaraed eyes looked down at the various treasures. for a moment, holly simply stares – raises her fingers to pick through them a little bit; the snapple bottle cap that reflected a tad in the sunlight, a blue-purple-gray pigeon feather, what looked like a grape gumball …. and in just a moment, a big smile is pulling her black - stained lips upward.
“ all’a this? for me? “ holly says, visibly pleased. she pocketed the bottle cap, stuck the feather behind her ear, and, before popping the gumball in her mouth, pressed a kiss to loma’s cheek. a lipstick mark was left on her pink skin, and holly liked it that way. around the gum, she said cheerfully, “ i’ll treasure them. nobody’s ever really given me somethin’ like this before … i love it. all of it. “
