"Please come and stay with me"
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she looks at him and in that moment she can’t hide the emotions that flit across her face. for the smallest of instances, casi is exposed. her mouthtwitches into a near frown, and her eyes convey some sort of anger, but the emotions are gone as soon as they appeared -- and she remains asunreadable as she was in the beginning. even he couldn’t have caught her small slip of truth.
their bond was odd enough as it was, considering cassandra’s mom had the decency to leave her at blaise’s the second she could --- and calla’s mom decided to wait quite a few years. casi was conceived in the joyous aftermath of the war -- a victory baby, it seemed. she didn’t want to do the math on when calla was conceived, regardless of the outcome. he was only a few months younger than her -- though he joined the family years later. everything about him was uncertain, in casi’s mind.
the one thing she knew for SURE was that their maternal origins were v a s t l y different. he looked more like blaise, having the same lips, eyes,and nose as their father. she obviously looked like her mother -- the one that abandoned her. all in all, the elder zabini didn’t know how to adjust. she was jealous -- exponentially so -- of the one who got so much from their father and so much from his mother. SO when he asks her to stay, she’s way too tempted to leave.
she looks him over, her dark eyes meeting his light ones and holding his gaze before she nods her consent. it’s a sacrifice in her mind, one of hate and pride. casi felt like the first snowflake of a deadly blizzard, tumbling down gracefully --- and hitting the ground before the chaos began. everything in her life was about control. she made it a mission to never show weakness -- to never be weak. but he’s f a m i l y, isn’t he? and so she swallows her bitterness, calls upon her loneliness, and moves towards the couch that calla’s taken residence on.
lowering herself down wasn’t an option, because if she took her timeshe’d lose her mind. collapsing down onto the couch beside him, shetried not to shy away from his body heat, instead throwing a leg over him. it wasn’t much, but it was something.
“ what’s wrong? ” casi finally asked, her voice hiding all of her inner turmoil. he wasn’t about to be let into to her private world of insecurities. she’d save that for her boyfriend.
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