❝ there’s a whole lot you’re not telling me. ❞ @ofeden ▸ nikolas petran // memes. // always accepting
THAT EARNS HIM A LAUGH ——one so loud it almost startles max. and she doesn’t mean to laugh at him, not really, it’s just such a ridiculous thing to come out of his mouth. she’d be willing to bet that the amount of truth she actually knows about nikolas petran could barely fit into a thimble, but here he is questioning the things she’s been withholding from him.
❝ is that where we’re at now ? ❞ a hum of contemplation, and she’s giving him a coy look — like maybe this is just a tease between the two of them, one of those things that’ll either turn into more laughter or something else that would take her breath away.
max shakes her head like she can clear it of thoughts like that. ❝ are we becoming people who tell each other things ? ❞ and maybe there’s something bitter about the edge to her tone — maybe despite every warning she’d ever received about getting tangled up with this man, she’d fallen into it too easily. it doesn’t mean she’d ever expect him to be the confiding type — and so, why should she?
❝ i bet there’s loads of stuff you haven’t told me. ❞ one brow arches up as if to challenge him to disagree. he won’t, she knows — not just because of his reputation, but because everyone has some secrets, or even little insignificant details they don’t share. still, there’s a bit of mischief at play, here, and max is feeling like riding the wave of it. ❝ i’ll trade you — ❞ and maybe the idea is stupid, childish, the kind of thing in which teenagers at parties indulge as an excuse to drink too much and make too many mistakes. but then, if she’s already made the mistakes, what’s wrong with playing the games after the fact? ❝ — secret for a secret ? ❞
