Library, Thursday All Day

[genesishero]

It had taken most of Evan's morning, but he'd finally managed to calm down a minor uprising in the fashion section. Apparently there were some books on beards that had been attempting to boast superiority over the ones about moustaches, and Evan was going to have none of it. After that, he checked his e-mail, deleting the spam and then hesitating for a few minutes before opening up an email from one of his old classmates against his better judgement.

In retrospect, he should have probably predicted that an email about Halloween from the school bully was going to involve a suggestion for a costume that involved a scan of a yearbook photo of Evan, terribly photoshopped to look like a clown.

Well, there was his day, shot. Thanks, Quire.

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Re: Talk to Evan!

[genesishero]

"I trust you wouldn't," Evan offered, still maybe a little mumbly. "And I know I wouldn't do it to anyone else, either."

You know. If someone hypothetically had any secrets, or anything.

Re: Talk to Evan!

[3girls-1core.livejournal.com]

Sure. Theoretically. And stuff.

"Can I ask what he did that was so bad? You don't have to tell me or anything. I'll understand."

Re: Talk to Evan!

[genesishero]

Evan flushed a little more, squirming in his seat before turning the monitor to show her. Of course he still had the e-mail open. He needed to stare at it to remind himself that Quire was a jerk.

... Or something.

"It's stupid," he muttered. "I shouldn't be so upset about something so harmless."

Re: Talk to Evan!

[3girls-1core.livejournal.com]

Oh. Oh, that was definitely... Yeah, she could see where that could be a thing.

"It's not harmless," she chided gently. "He deliberately did that to hurt your feelings. You're allowed to be upset when someone deliberately sets out to upset you."

Re: Talk to Evan!

[genesishero]

"I shouldn't have even opened it," Evan countered, though there really wasn't any fire in that. "I mean, he's... just being a jerk. But he kind of always is. This isn't anything new."

Re: Talk to Evan!

[3girls-1core.livejournal.com]

"Doesn't make it right," Sholeh argued. "If you came in and saw me this upset because someone was routinely nasty to me, would you be so willing to brush it off?"

Re: Talk to Evan!

[genesishero]

"Of course not, no." Evan fidgeted a little, and the reached up and just closed the whole browser. It meant the e-mail was still going to be waiting for him in his inbox, yeah, but he just didn't want to deal with it right then. "I'd probably want to take a piece out of the person that hurt you," and oh, man, he could, "but this is just... I don't know. It feels different, when it's about me."

Some part of him wanted to take that hurt, internalize it, twist it around into hate and anger and power, and save it up to turn back on Quentin when Quire least expected it.

That part kind of scared him.