Prompt: “I want us to work out, but you don't want that... do you?”
Task: Witches - Tracey Davis @traceydavxs
This time, it took Laura way more than a deep breath to reorganize her thoughts and feelings. It wasn't easy, keeping her heart from racing too fast, but she managed, while looking at Tracey. She was one of the people that tortured her a few times in the past, but also one of the few that apologized. And they've been trying - talking, getting to know each other, trying to create some form of relationship that wasn't based in previous terror, but good things. Still, it was difficult for Laura to breathe sometimes, when Tracey got to close or put her hands on her wand - it brought back too many memories, bad ones, terrible ones.
But she would never let a friend go, and Tracey had been nothing but a friend since apologizing.
"I want to." She said, after a few seconds, looking directly at Tracey's eyes, a determined voice that showed how much she wanted it. "I don't want to live in the past and you've been trying, it's not fair of me to push you away." Someone else might think differently - she had been literally tortured by Tracey, but Laura knew better. They were both victims somehow.
"Look, I... I can't promise you I'll suddenly wake up one day and forget everything, but..." She knew the only way to show Tracey she was into that idea, of trying to form a friendship without backing out, was doing something she would never before. So she touched Tracey's shoulder, trying to breathe easy and keep her hands there, ignoring the shiver - of fear - that went through her body. "I can promise I'll try."