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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2014 0:48:04 GMT
She sat at her desk, legs crossed. Nae studied her nails - perfectly manicured, a dull and opaque color. She turned her fingers this way and that way, then drummed them on the desk. Eyes dart to the clock, the subtle undulation of the computer screen, back to her nails.
Two coworkers flit by, ask her to come to lunch. She tells them she already ate, gives the appropriate, sterile smile and watches them walk out the door. As they do, she spots blonde hair and she hopes this day will stay dull.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2014 1:29:42 GMT
Frank is dreary eyed and still wears his coat in warm weather. He walks on an empty stomach, but his hands are trembling; droning reassurance flips through his head, telling him dubious reactions. If he knows this Nae like he think he does though, the answer is clear.
He pushes the door to the travel agency, and ignores the woman who greets him, until he walks a little too far, trots back to her and ask her where 'Noemi Badour is, I'm a friend and I need to pass on an urgent message'. The woman looks reluctant and Frank pleads with his eyes and she sighs and takes him to a place where computers are and where Noemi is nearly but not alone, and he sighs as if that will give him salvation.
"Noemi." He calls. It's important to note it's not Nae, not today.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2014 1:31:56 GMT
It's them and the tag along receptionist. Nae licks her lips and stays in her chair. There's a level of apprehension and she has to wonder why on earth he's here. She clacks her nails once, twice. Exhales, tilts her head.
"What's so important?"
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2014 1:37:01 GMT
Frank sighs, and he looks away for a moment, as if he doesn't want to do this. He's not sure about his feelings on the matter, to be honest, but it's not personal because the woman watching does not cross his mind at all.
He takes one step forward towards her, just one, fishes out keys from his pocket and hands it to her.
"Thanks for wh- everything you've done for me. I can't- I don't feel right... intruding for any longer." Frank hates himself for sounding fifteen and drunk, but he might as well be fifteen and drunk because he knows it isn't going to get any better. This is what he is. There is nothing redeemable about him.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2014 1:42:16 GMT
To her credit she stays very calm. Is this coming out of nowhere? She doesn't know, but she remembers kissing him and drinking and kissing him and wanting to kiss him and now she's being played. Nae is the one who decides, but here he is, acting like he has the guts and authority to decide. Her only coherent thought is to make him pay.
"I don't care," she says, taking the keys from him like he has a disease. Noémi holds them with the tips of her perfect nails. Some things remain perfect, she knows that. Here she can tell he is tired and he cannot tell that she is also tired. That's the art form.
He's a coward for this. "I won't miss you." She drops the keys at her desk and waves a hand blithely as her eyes draw back to the vacant computer screen, pretending there's something to be seen. Something to be done. "Good luck." They both know she doesn't mean that.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2014 1:49:48 GMT
He won't say he didn't see it coming. It was one of the likeliest scenarios.
Did he possibly feel a bit sad?
No, of course not. If he did, the keys wouldn't be by her side. The ones she cut for him. Her words, they sting like wasps, without the fury. She could come at him again and again and he'd expect nothing less from her. Noemi is Noemi is Noemi. Maybe he's glad that she reacted that way. Perhaps it tells him the woman he saw those months back was the girl he knew from high school.
"Thanks." He almost whispers in French, and thus turns and walks away, brushing himself past the receptionist without much of a 'goodbye'.
If he didn't offer one to Noemi, there's no one else in the world that he would offer it to.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2014 2:35:40 GMT
[attr="class","temps"]GOOD JOB BIRDIE and BOO each receive 2 nectar for completing a thread.
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