“That is one of the only reasons I continue to let you convince me to do this,” Vienna shot back with a smirk. That and really she owed Leah, after all the photoshoots she put the other woman through – doing a bit of rooftop yoga with her really was only fair. Schooling her expression into one she hoped came close to innocent, Vienna cast a glance at her friend. “Would I bitch just for bitching’s sake?”
Laughing softly, she shook her head. “You forget that you’re the one with pregnancy brain, not me.” Vienna teased, enjoying the mindless banter between friends.
Leah made a really good observation about her relationship with Bea. Her older sister was having to get to know her all over ago, or she had to get to know the aspects of her personality that had drastically changed. “You know I never really thought of it that way,” she remarked honestly. “But I probably should have, since that’s exactly what she’s having to do.” Because when push came to shove, Bea hadn’t changed much from the sister she had know before the outbreak – she would need to remember this observation the next time she felt the urge to get frustrated with Bea over some stupid argument brought on by a personality clash.
Vienna did her best to mimic the new pose Leah had shifted into, coming close but knowing that she didn’t pull it off with the same kind of ease that the other woman had. “Sure, sure, this was totally your way of slipping in that I’m annoying,” she teased, smiling to let the other woman know she was joking. “But in all honesty, it’s in the younger sibling rule book to be annoying, so of course it’s stereotypical.”
Was it really fair for her to have even asked that of Leah? Probably not. But Vienna appreciated the other woman’s honesty in her answer. “To be honest Brandon doesn’t seem like the type that would do it on purpose,” she remarked. “And really Bea’s never been the serious type either, which might be why I’m trying to figure all of this out, and really it wasn’t fair of me to ask you about this, especially when Bea’s your friend and Brandon’s your brother.” But it set her mind at ease a little bit, to know some of this stuff. “And really Bea could just as likely hurt Brandon, because they share the same ‘not really the serious relationship type’ traits.”
Smiling softly, Vienna nodded. “I wasn’t going to breathe a word of this to anyone, so if things get fucked up between them, it’s not going to be because you and I had this conversation.” What Brandon and Bea didn’t know couldn’t hurt them, right?