Slightly Manic PV Kae Finished

So it was confirmed then. Tal did mess up everything she touched, or spoke to, or even looked at, it seemed. Maybe she was destined to just wrap herself up in a blanket and hide from the world for ever and ever after all. At least then she wouldn’t have to deal with being too quick to lend her heart out to someone only to have it thrown back into her face.

Maybe she was overreacting, but she felt so alone. And this unusual interaction with this boy that she so desperately longed to be friends with was just icing on her cake of what did I do wrong now? Baked with love.

So when the boy fled, like she’d contemplated doing multiple times within that conversation, she watched him go sadly. All she wanted was a friend. And yet she kept accidentally scaring all the potential friends away.

She waved shyly as he left, knowing he probably wouldn’t turn back and look and see, and that even if he did, he wouldn’t return the gesture. But it felt right, and she held on to the one ray of light in her mind, the glimmer of hope. He said “I don’t know,” not “no.”