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Post by Alana Cortese on Dec 27, 2023 12:07:00 GMT -5
“…” Alana started to get a hot pink color scheme again. What she was hearing sounded a lot like a confession.
”No...he’s not...” Alana said in her head in denial over what she was hearing. ”Did he...did he just confess? Or am I jumping to conclusions…? He didn’t outright say he did that because he liked me...but…” It took Alana a while to really process what Noland said to her. She struggled to say anything, but she had to know...
“W-what are you s-saying…?” Alana asked him.
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Post by Noland Hardy on Dec 27, 2023 12:07:23 GMT -5
Noland took a while to respond. The look on his face was very serious. He wanted to be very careful here. He didn’t want to potentially mislead her based on what he told Allen earlier. On top of that, he didn’t want to break her heart either when he doesn’t know how to say what he’s really thinking.
”Whoever Mrs. Hardy is has to accept all of that,” he remembered Allen saying to him. He knew Allen was right, but he wasn’t at the point where he can fully accept that advice. He was too conflicted to answer Alana’s question truthfully...
“I’m saying...how you and I feel about each other…is different now. My outburst...what you were about to say…and the way we are with each other… With all of that together, especially with yesterday, I think we’re past the point of being best friends,” Noland believed. “Do you see that, or am I crazy?”
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Post by Alana Cortese on Dec 27, 2023 12:07:40 GMT -5
“...Y-yes…I...see it…” Alana struggled to admit. She hung her head down in shame. Despite Noland saying it was okay, it still weighed on her that this was happening. Not only was it shameful, baving all of their secrets out in the open made her a lot more flustered than she was before it all came out.
“Not saying we have to, but...if we became...official… The optics don’t look good for us for obvious reasons…” Alana stated in reference to the whole Petra situation. “And...I don’t want to say the l word in response to me thinking you’re going to die or go away, or something like that… Not that I don’t want to tell you for real, but... I...want to make sure how I’m feeling is based off of love and not fear... I know we’re going to talk about this more eventually, but...until then, at least for right now...we can accept that there’s...’something’...between us?”
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Post by Noland Hardy on Dec 27, 2023 12:08:08 GMT -5
Noland was relieved to hear this. Alana just gave him more time to think about how he’s going to deal with this. Plus, everything she said was correct, so there were no objections from him.
“Agreed with everything,” Noland acknowledged. “So… Now that we talked about it, are you going to be okay? No more worrying and crying? Please?”
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