“This is my “you’re being a dick” face.“” // nottragic @ kev uwu
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THERE WAS LITTLE TO DESCRIBE IT: this feeling in his chest that pinched and pulled and pained him to no end every time she spoke to him regardless of the context. He used to be able to brush it off – scoff and call her childish or berate her in any other way. It used to be easy; but the more time that passed, the more difficult it was to give her the cold shoulder. Like now, face to face with her and understanding with perfect clarity where she was coming from… He had no chance. He didn’t let himself linger on whether she knew it – whether she used the fact that he was one of his weaknesses against him; after all, it was better not to ask, Kevin wagered. These newfound feelings he’d shared with nobody but one were enough to consume his thoughts daily.
Sighing, a hand rose to run down his face, eyes squeezing shut for a moment as his anger was channeled into something other than violence – god forbid he ever lay his hands on her – but there was nothing that could have stopped harsher words from leaving his lips, exhaustion evident in the way his eyes remained unchanged.
“What do you expect, Paige? I’m not Sami.” Cruel – and he knew it. But once he started, Kevin never really knew when to stop: no one had ever demonstrated where the line in the sand was to be drawn and, therefore, he’d never tried to offer his own. It was either extremes or nothing with him, and too many had learnt that the hard way. Paige should know better. Or… He should be better. You’d think he’d find a way to be by now. “I’m not about to grovel at your feet because you’re offended I told the truth. Showin’ up late doesn’t fly around here or any other place for long. You can’t risk losing your job because you were lazy. I won’t let you.”
His voice remained stern from the onset and throughout his short speech, though an inkling of concern crept through towards the end, eyes offering a vulnerability he’d never cement in words. “You can call it what you like, but I’m just looking out for you. People have been talking. You gotta work hard to shut ‘em up.”
