Belles and Brawls || Jessie and Lottie
Normally, Jessie wouldn’t be inside. She hated the indoors, felt as though the walls were pressing in on her. But what the cowgirl hated even more was the rain. Her dark eyes watched the lashings of raindrops fall from the dull grey sky with loathing. She wasn’t made for this kind of life, the kind with lazy mornings in bed, little work to do and no heat to warm her skin. She was a country girl, a working girl. Conduct disorder or no, that shouldn’t change.
But, not matter how hard Jessie mentally threatened the weather, it wouldn’t change and the cowgirl found herself walking aimlessly throughout the halls of the asylum, trying to not look too closely at the walls. On a dark and unforgiving day like this, the walls seemed to stretch before her, reaching out to cage her in. It made her pulse spike and her nails dig into the inside of her palms. It was like a building of a storm to her, those familiar little feelings, habits. The first signs that a part of her would raise its snarling head.
She hadn’t really paid any attention to her surroundings, more so lost in her own inner battle when she collided with another form. “Fuckin’ watch it,” She snapped, her small stature already glaring up at her offender. But of course, whatever divine being that existed truly hated Jessie for her to be, of all days, staring up into the wide southern belle eyes of Charlotte. In a lot of ways, she reminded Jessie of Melissa – all blonde and leggy, only, Melissa had been about as nice as Jessie. “Oh,” Jessie said without much emotion. “It’s you.” The sight of the girl alone was enough to fester away at Jessie – the girl being all things Jessie wasn’t. Who could compete with a girl with legs up to her armpits?
I didn’t know you were in the running, cowgirl…It was true. Jessie had broken things off with Buzz, not the other way around. It was she who despised the idea of anyone thinking that she was the bitter ex-girlfriend. She didn’t want things to change between her and Buzz, didn’t want to try and salvage the remains. It was easier to get by hating him and he hating her. She was the country hick and he the hotshot astronaut. Fairytales wouldn’t even believe in it. And despite everything, the sight of the girl alone made a strange feeling well up in Jessie.
It had been a while, but Jessie knew the feeling well. Knew how to work with it. Felling her lips curl into a familiar snarl, Jessie arched a brow, crossing her arms over her chest. “Still lookin’ for those mental princes, Doll? Or, don’t they want you either?”