❝I was waiting for you in that alleyway: watching you watching me.❞ to lisbeth. :)
they were not old habits lisbeth had fallen into. more so ones they did not have much of a need for. being so well off and independent meant there was little work they needed to do , unless armansky found something really interesting for them. and has done their best not to look into anna’s life. aside from a very easy online search to know the basics. everything else had been learned from talking to them. a relatively new concept. lisbeth prefers to be one step ahead. but not for this.
still , they had found themselves off to the side. watching. a cigarette between their lips. another habit that is appearing less. but still present. stamped under their boot , unfinished. straightens as anna makes her way over.
❛ i saw you. sorry. i should have come over. ❜ this is still new to them. slight trepidation tangling up their spine. only wanted to be this close with one other person. but miriam was living her own life and lisbeth had not wanted to intrude. though they do still meet from time to time. has a chance with anna that they had missed out with mimmi.
trying to do better. ❛ you look really nice. ❜ fingers around the circumference of anna’s wrist , blindly running of the tattoos that reach down there. still memorised by them to an extent. maybe lisbeth hadn’t meant to be seen but anna. but now they were , all the better that they had. ❛ i’m glad i could see you again. ❜ is sorry that is has been a while since the last time. another habit. slipping in and out of existence , not understanding that people miss them. does now. regretful that they have left it so long.
