Renata Parker (nerdspecks) wrote in undeadsiegeic, @ 2015-04-02 08:21:00 |
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Entry tags: | mason, renata |
WHO: Mason and Ren
WHEN: April 2nd, 2015; evening
WHERE: The apartment
WHAT: The fall out after video messages from family.
What kind of a joke was it that they had received messages from their loved ones? Renata had wondered that when she had first been given the dvd that held video messages for her from Cade and Owen. She had carried it around for a week until April 1st hit; Renata had thought it would be something of a birthday present to herself to see what her brother and cousin had thought was video worthy, but instead it had just made her miss them. She’d been compartmentalizing how much she wanted to be able to see them, and the video had just smashed through all of her carefully constructed safeguards to keep how much she missed them from effecting her too much.
It was a day later and she was still reeling from seeing their faces and hearing their voices, but not being able to tell them a single thing about what was going on. Ren hadn’t expected how it would make her heart twist, didn’t think that either one of them could have predicted it either, otherwise maybe they would have sent something different or nothing at all. It wasn’t like it had been one long, sentimental message. It had just been Cade and Owen being Cade and Owen, giving her an update of life on the outside, telling her they missed her and Mason, and that neither one of them should pick up the virus. They had even included a goofy happy birthday at the very end, like they had known exactly when the video would reach her.
Ren had replayed it for an hour.
She hadn’t asked what kind of message Mason had received, but today she was curious. What would they had said to him?
Padding into the living room, she dropped onto the couch across from her cousin, picking at the end of one of her dreads for a few seconds as she decided how to break the silence. It wasn’t like Mason was ever the easiest person to read, even for her.
“So,” Renata started, “That was a gut punch.” It probably said a lot to him about how she felt that she hadn’t said a thing about it until now.