status: closed for @wickedthiswaycomes | holden and daphne location: somewhere around town that makes sense
it felt weird to be back in town, at least to her. aside from the family, no one knew where daphne had gone or why she had left so suddenly. she was grateful for the privacy and that people at the shop hadn’t asked questions but rather celebrated her return. dee just wished that everyone would give her that same warm homecoming. she had tucked a strand of hair behind her ear that fell from the messy pony when she looked up from her phone and daphne’s heart sank to the bottom of her stomach.
holden price.
of everyone in her life, he deserved all the answers and dee wanted to give them. she just wasn’t sure if he would stay around long enough to listen. avoiding him wasn’t possible, not in huntsville. and not when all she wanted was to be with him. and for a moment, daphne thought they could be together. she wanted nothing more than to be with holden. but she wasn’t deserving of him in the state she as in. so she left a couple days later and never told him why. all she could do was hope she wasn’t too late.
straying from her original path, daphne decided to bite the bullet and get the uncomfortable conversation over with. her hands were shaking as she walked up to him, stopping just a few feet away. “ho-holden?” daphne said, hoping she was loud enough for him to hear. “...hi.”
