❝ you smell nice. ❞ / PHILIP THANKS
Compliments ALWAYS take Steph by surprise. It doesn’t matter who gives them, she rarely expects them and when they DO come her way, she isn’t the best at handling them. Unless they’re regarding her intellect, in which case there’s an element of pride that always shines through.
This is something else, though, and she has to stop where she’s standing once it sinks in. A deep breath, almost a sigh, is sucked from her lungs as she processes that in her movement she had been close enough for Philip to catch her smell, and then that he felt the need to comment on that after. Gut instinct told her that he was lying, teasing, winding her up. In the time it took her to tuck a wild curl back into one of the hair ties keeping most of her hair off her face, she realised how ridiculous that would be. Steph turned, looking at him over her shoulder.
“Thanks, I showered.”
🌟┊❛ @despairfed / senses.
