‘touch me’ symbols meme + @thebookofreg
Fingers pinched at the bridge of her nose. Shoulders, trembling just slightly, wishing she had a better hold of her emotions in the moment, knowing that she was failing to maintain the cool that she wanted, needed. At the gritty edge of feeling something spill over within her, sleep deprived and her heart ramming awkwardly within her chest. The conflict of emotions pulling her in every direction. Fangs was alive... still within the hospital, caught within his own fight for his life. Jughead in yet another room, the shock of his fight with the Ghoulies having left his battered form in terrible shape, the doctors still working hard to ensure they could re-set the damage that had been inflicted upon him. And yet still, in the streets, the Serpents were battling it out within the Southside, the Ghoulies showing up in full force.
They needed her out there.
But it’d be a lie to say that she wasn’t afraid.
Trying to grasp hold of her sanity when she felt a hand slide along her back, the feeling making her start, and that, enough to make her eyes overflow with the sudden and unexpected emotion that welled from within. “Wha...” her voice was tightly contained, but from a glance, she was able to tell who was there by her side. Reggie Mantle... having been texting with him throughout her hide-a-way here, the worries, fears, concerns, the exhaustion, all of it. Pouring out her emotions like some kind of twisted confession into all the things she shared with him, mouth warping in her own attempt to contain the overwhelming sense that she couldn’t keep herself from crying, her hands wiping hopelessly at her face. “I’m... fuck.”
Hating that she was like this, worse that it was around him, even if they’d seen their own interactions change, in drastic form over the last few months, trying to drag in a lungful of air, to straighten her spine into something that resembled steel and iron, hands dropping to grip the edge of the seat, even as he did his best with her. Hand stroking her back, over her leather jacket, like a reminder as she felt his fingertips over the patch of what she must do. Being in a gang was never going to be easy. “I’m not gonna stay here. You know I have to get out there.” danger or not, her fingers bunching through her pink hair, fitting the mess of her pink curls into a band, tying it off to the side as her eyes met his, red rimmed, fearful, everything swimming within their brown depths. “... You can’t stop me but. I’m glad I got to see you.” just in case... just in case.