Re: Marvel: Max & Ella
[She hadn't thought about men in five years. Not for real, not on an army base out in the middle of nowhere, where they either had a wife or they had no ties for a reason. The first time she'd had sex after, it had felt weird, the way it had felt when she'd been young and new, like it was some dance she didn't know the steps to. Max, the steps were there but maybe the rest had been unlearned.]
They're good kids [She watched the two heads bow over the buckets and the voices were busy chatting; it was heartening, that beginning of something more than discord. They'd left behind the half-cousins and siblings.
She drew back her fingers after a beat, and she smiled, slow but confident. This, her sister mellow? Was a lot easier to believe once she'd seen it.] Amanda's taking it all okay?