valerie anna . climbing the stairway (24k) wrote in musingslogs,
Valerie was as surprised as anyone when Haley snapped at Orin, and she reevaluated her assessment of the other woman. (Woman now, rather than girl.) Not very many people snapped at Orin, but Valerie discovered that she liked the vast majority of those few. She warmed a little toward Haley and felt that perhaps it wouldn't be so bad talking to her, if she was less likely to go spill every word to Orin just because he got cross.
Valerie looked over Haley's shoulder at Orin to see how close he was, and then she reached up a hand for Haley's to draw her a little closer. "I'll eat something. But there is something you can do for me, please? You can go pick something up for me?" She pulled (or would have, more like gently tugged) Haley down and closer so she could whisper at her.