She glanced up, but her face was still closed off to him and she went over to the fridge to get an ice pack for her feet, limping a little. “Yeah.”
“I’m fine,” she replied sharply, going over to the couch and sitting down, pulling off her shoes. “Just... got in a bit of a fight.”
“A fight,” she replied with a small nod, her mouth set in a stubborn line as she pulled down the edge of her sock, revealing bruises that were already beginning to form.
She squinted at him, clearly not in the mood to talk to him. “Some guy tried to mess with me over on the roofs by Linden Ave to impress his buddies,” she replied flatly.
She rested her head in her hands, balancing the ice packs on the sides of her feet before turning on the news.
She paled a little, and pressed her lips together. "Yeah, she just... attacked us out of nowhere," the main leader said, wiping some of the blood off his lip. Two of the others had black eyes and the one who had fallen off the roof was sitting on a curb nearby. "Just completely went after us." "That's not true," she muttered. "Little *squee!*."
She stood and went over to the bedroom, taking her pillow and pressing her face into it and screaming out of frustration, her voice muffled by the pillow.
She was pacing, her hair coming loose from her braid as she pulled at strands in frustration. "I'm irritated, Abel," she replied sharply. She pointed at the television, where the leader was still talking. "He's lying! All of them are little *squee!*ing liars! I'm... I'm..." She seemed at a loss of words, her hands trembling in fury as she tried to calm herself down.
"No, Abel, it's not okay," she replied, backing away from him. "Because you don't think I can handle myself, and those little *squee!*s are *squee!*ing lying about what I did, and Eve is still out there just... existing and there is so..." She paused, gasping for breath a little from the sudden influx of words. "People are just so *squee!*ty, Abel. It's not that hard to be good. It's not that *squee!*ing hard to be decent."
"No," she protested, shaking her head as she brushed past him, looked like a trapped animal. "This isn't just a thing between you and me. I don't... I don't understand why people can't just be better. I can't understand. I don't get it. Just *squee!*ing do the right thing. Be better. I don't understand."
