by zapdragon555 » 04/29/2016 7:02 PM
Maria's smirk slowly fell at that, sobering, and he nodded slowly. "Yeah," he murmured, offering Sue a genuine kind of smile. "Alright. I just like messing with you--but if it's gonna get you that angry, then I'll avoid it. I'd rather not lose teeth over it." Sue peered at him suspiciously for a moment, before he relaxed with a loud exhale that sounded kind of like a laugh.
"I wouldn't hit you, idiot," Sue chuckled, and Maria blinked, glancing up at him with a soft, unintelligible look in his eyes. After a moment of silence, Maria looked down at his plate, then pushed it closer to Sue and flicked his last full meatball onto Sue's plate with his fork.
"This Tramp's had enough--the Lady can have it," Maria tittered, and Sue stared for a couple of beats before the reference--or sad excuse for a joke--settled in.
"Fuck you," he snorted, a note of affection in his voice that he couldn't quite keep from coming out, and he stabbed the meatball and ate it with a grunt of warning. "Thanks, though," he muttered, and Maria smiled sweetly at him (or as sweetly as he could physically manage), before patting the table and placing the correct amount of money on it from a stash in his pocket.
"I'm gonnna hit the restroom. Grab a go-box for mine, will you? I'll ask the front desk about a hotel," Maria said, and Sue waved him off before sliding the bills closer and arching an eyebrow at the large tip. It unsettled him how freely Maria spent money. Sue had never looked to see how much the boy actually had. He glanced over at Maria's receding figure, eyes flicking up and down the boy's back, before he scowled at himself and quickly finished up the rest of his food, trying to forget that crooked smile just for a few moments of peace.
But there will come a time
You'll see, with no more tears
And love will not break your heart
But dismiss your fears
Get over your hill and see
What you find there
With grace in your heart
And flowers in your hair
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