Re: Michael | Parvati | Theo
Parvati felt a flare of irritation. Not at being turned down--there was a little teeny bit of wounded pride in there, but she didn't have much of that anyway and really, mostly what she felt was relieved. Relieved she didn't have to put herself through two stupidly attractive blokes seeing her naked when she could barely stand to see herself naked. Though she certainly would have tried, she might not have found the boldness to go through with it anyway, and then that would have made everything worse.
She got the sense something else was going on for Theo, since now he seemed sad, but they'd already discussed how she was selfish, and her irritation was real so she didn't care if he had his own issues just now. She was mad because she bloody didn't know how to get what she wanted, no, needed from Theo out of him, and if she didn't even have the womanly wiles to lie her way into bed with him, what the shite did she have to offer? Scintillating conversations about books in return for his deepest, darkest family secrets?
Parvati was a bit disgusted with herself and how pathetic she was, but she tried to hide it behind twisted smirk angled mostly at Michael because she didn't think she could keep the disappointment fully out of her eyes just now and she didn't want Theo to think she was that invested in him. "What a shame. He's even smooth with the rebuffs, though, isn't he?"
She should have known that wouldn't work, and now she just wanted to go lick her stupid wounds in private and plot with Ronnie what the fuck else they could do if Theo wasn't going to be beguiled and if his stupid, evil, fucking bastard father's books had all been confiscated anyway.
"Look, I'm enough of a bitch that I'd ditch my other date for the sake of sex..." And that was sure pretending to be something she wasn't. "But if that's not what this is, then I should find Ronnie, if she hasn't already left. She doesn't know anyone here, and I kind of bailed on her. Thanks for an entertaining conversation, at the very least. See you both around?"