[ It's been a long, long time since she allowed herself the luxury of being held.
Her family isn't the type to do hugs or little gestures of affection, at least, in the way her mother used to before she'd passed away. Her older sister is alright, Kate supposes, but she's no longer around as much as she used to be before her marriage and they were never very close to begin with. As for her father... Kate mentally shakes off the thought and opts instead to lean into Tommy's solidness. ]
You look like a wreck, [ the words are muffled when she murmurs them against his shoulder and she pulls back, still encircled in his arms, to get a second look. ] Have you even slept?
[ Her hand comes up instinctively to brush at the strands of hair that have fallen into his eyes. It's not a gesture she would normally do, but it's been a rough week at school and her peers have seemed nothing but inconsequential and shallow in the light of everything else. ]
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Her family isn't the type to do hugs or little gestures of affection, at least, in the way her mother used to before she'd passed away. Her older sister is alright, Kate supposes, but she's no longer around as much as she used to be before her marriage and they were never very close to begin with. As for her father... Kate mentally shakes off the thought and opts instead to lean into Tommy's solidness. ]
You look like a wreck, [ the words are muffled when she murmurs them against his shoulder and she pulls back, still encircled in his arms, to get a second look. ] Have you even slept?
[ Her hand comes up instinctively to brush at the strands of hair that have fallen into his eyes. It's not a gesture she would normally do, but it's been a rough week at school and her peers have seemed nothing but inconsequential and shallow in the light of everything else. ]