Library, Tuesday

[angelo_wings]

Rinoa was oddly quiet during her shift today. Thinking about Squall, and what Jono had said, and what she was supposed to do now, anyway.

Luckily, books were perfect for when someone was feeling oddly quiet. She was going to find a locked-room mystery and see if she could solve it before the last chapter.

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Re: Talk to Rinoa

[angelo_wings]

"Kind of?" Rinoa admitted. Everybody else seemed to think she was insane, at that part of the story. "It was a huge thing for her. It seemed ... I don't know. Weird. So I said we should break up, and he said we weren't even dating anyway, and I got mad, and he just sat there going 'Whatever,' and ... then I stormed off."

All perfectly logical, if you were completely insane.

Re: Talk to Rinoa

[justwantsquiet.livejournal.com]

"...honey," Sookie said carefully, "were y'all actually dating?"

Because that was the big sticking point for her. The other parts were fine -- she had basically perfected the art of storming off, after all.

Re: Talk to Rinoa

[angelo_wings]

........ well. Er.

"No," she sighed, scuffing the ground. "But he didn't have to say it like that."

Re: Talk to Rinoa

[justwantsquiet.livejournal.com]

"Well, no," she said, sympathetic. "But still. Boys're dumber than us sometimes. You probably caught him a little off-guard."

Re: Talk to Rinoa

[angelo_wings]

"Yeah," she agreed. And for her part, she did look sheepish at her own ... well, stupidity. "I guess I felt like ... like he was saying that he didn't care at all. We're not dating, but it's not nothing, between us. It can't be."

He'd nearly died saving her life a few too many times for that. Call it a hunch.

Re: Talk to Rinoa

[justwantsquiet.livejournal.com]

"No, of course not," she agreed. "He's just mad, maybe? He'll come around, sweetie. If you mean that much to him -- and I'm sure you do, form what you've said -- he won't stay away forever."

Re: Talk to Rinoa

[angelo_wings]

"He's so bad at this," Rinoa said. Not that he was the only one in this relationship who wasn't any good at it. (Or that it was a relationship, exactly, in the most literal sense.) "I'm not usually this bad, but with him I never know what I'm doing. Do you think it shouldn't matter? About ... my mom, and his dad? It just feels too ... intertwined."

She tapped a finger lightly on the desk before adding, "Jono said I should go apologize."

And she hated that Jono might be right about that.

Re: Talk to Rinoa

[justwantsquiet.livejournal.com]

"Mmm." Sookie considered that for a moment. "I don't think that your mom and his dad shouldn't matter, necessarily. I just -- don't throw it away on account of something that happened years before either of you was born." She sighed, playing with the cover of one of the novels she'd returned. "It's rare enough to find someone you actually feel that strongly about. Be kind of a waste to give up what you really want 'cause your mom was disappointed, you know? As to whether you should apologize -- do you think he will, first? Because that's the question I'd ask myself."

Re: Talk to Rinoa

[angelo_wings]

Rinoa smiled, fondly.

"I don't think he would," she said. "Not because he's stubborn. He is, but it's not because of anything like that. I just don't think it would occur to him."

She had had to walk him through the finer points of 'I would like you to hold me because I am upset, and that would bring me comfort.' Rinoa had to keep reminding herself that most of the time, Squall had no idea what was going on.

Unless he asked someone else for advice, but that would mean talking to someone else about their non-relationship, and admitting he was upset about it. Which was where 'stubborn' did come into play.

"So ... I shouldn't throw this away over me being stubborn, either, right?"

Re: Talk to Rinoa

[justwantsquiet.livejournal.com]

"I think it'd be just as bad as throwing it away for any other reason," she said, shrugging a little. "I've seen so many people break up or otherwise ruin perfectly good relationships 'cause of misunderstandings and little things. I mean, if it genuinely bothers you? Give it some time. But I wouldn't give up entirely."

Re: Talk to Rinoa

[angelo_wings]

"Okay," she said. "I'll go talk to him."

And stop being an idiot, if that was possible.

"How did you get so good at this?" she asked.

Re: Talk to Rinoa

[justwantsquiet.livejournal.com]

"Sixteen years of not having a love life because I'm too busy overhearing everyone else's," Sookie said with a rueful little tap to her temple. "I've watched way too many people screw things up romantically to not have learned a bit."