Taking place Nov 1, 2016
The movie was good. It was better than Shay had expected it to be. One would think The Shallows would be seriously cheesy, but it really wasn't until the end. Mostly, Shay sat through the whole thing figure out how and what she was going to say. She found herself glancing at Toby over and over, watching his reactions, those were more fun than the movie itself.
If ever there was a point he didn't seem interested enough, she'd lift one piece of popcorn and toss it at his hair before quickly looking at the screen and playing innocent.
It wasn't until after the movie was over, and Shay had no more substantial distractions that she was worried once more. She had sat them outside the theater at some small two person table. It was late afternoon, and the temperature had dropped significantly.
She didn't know where she should start, or how she'd smoothly transition to each new topic, so she didn't. Shay told Toby about Auden and their tryst in the empty classroom as she put it, it was kind of dull and hadn't made her feel any less empty, disappointing. She told him about her heritage as a Reaper and Kelara, and her parents -- it was her fault they died, or whatever happened to them, she couldn't remember. She admitted to him that there was something very wrong, and she'd been angry lately, that she'd wanted to hurt things.
Shay had hoped to do all this respectable, keep some face and some pride, but she wasn't. She was sobbing big ugly tears, whole body shaking as she felt like an idiot. She was trying to hide her face, so he didn't have to see her fucking shame. It kept occurring to her at random intervals in the day that she was a bad kid. A bad, bad kid.
Around harsh, choking sobs and watery eyes, Shay said. "A-And then I was mad at you 'cause I thought you would-wouldn't care if I had died in the maze and I couldn't even blame you c-cause I'm annoying and no-good." If it were possible, Shay would have cried harder. She scrubbed her face, wishing she could be in some bubble where she didn't have to admit all this, or where she could come off looking sane and well put together.
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