[It was a kneejerk response. Don't say that, it made her feel guilty and conflicted. She wasn't a nice person. No one could be that happy to see her. It couldn't be true. Why were people lying to her about that?
Lucy's fingers curled across the table until they balled up into fists, and she wouldn't look at Katherine. She couldn't—didn't want to acknowledge that she was there, when Katherine obviously was.
When the teenager did move, the motion was explosive and sudden; she pushed herself back from the table and sprinted around it. The small patch of tile between the door and the table Lucy was sitting at seemed to stretch impossibly far, and her limbs felt numb and leaden. Running away shouldn't be so difficult.
Lucy's hands touched the wood and glass of the door, the greeting bell jingled cheerily—and the teenager was gone, shoving someone out of the way as she took off up the street. She didn't know when she'd stop running, only that she had to.]
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[It was a kneejerk response. Don't say that, it made her feel guilty and conflicted. She wasn't a nice person. No one could be that happy to see her. It couldn't be true. Why were people lying to her about that?
Lucy's fingers curled across the table until they balled up into fists, and she wouldn't look at Katherine. She couldn't—didn't want to acknowledge that she was there, when Katherine obviously was.
When the teenager did move, the motion was explosive and sudden; she pushed herself back from the table and sprinted around it. The small patch of tile between the door and the table Lucy was sitting at seemed to stretch impossibly far, and her limbs felt numb and leaden. Running away shouldn't be so difficult.
Lucy's hands touched the wood and glass of the door, the greeting bell jingled cheerily—and the teenager was gone, shoving someone out of the way as she took off up the street. She didn't know when she'd stop running, only that she had to.]