a_littlefaith | (no subject)

Bit by bit, she's coming back around.

Beth wouldn't say she's over the things that have happened, she knows she can't say she's no longer thinking about Curtis all the time when she knows she still is, but over the past few weeks or so, things have gotten a little bit easier every day until she finds herself reaching out to people she hasn't seen as often as she knows she would like to say she has. It isn't their fault, she knows it's hers, she'd pulled away from everyone a little in the weeks after Curtis had disappeared, but it's not in her nature to be so isolated and so she knows it's time to reach out again.

She's lucky her friends are understanding, lucky they know what it's like to lose someone and don't hold it against her.

Jenny agrees to meet her easily enough and Beth suggests one of the cozier coffee shops in the city, one with big comfy chairs and hot drinks that probably have enough sugar in them to last her a whole week. There's still a significant chill in the air and where Beth might normally suggest a walk in the park or doing something fun outdoors, she thinks this is a better idea for now. It gives them a chance to really talk.

She arrives before Jenny and finds them a spot in one of the back corners, claiming the small, two person couch for them before anyone else can get it, and then she settles in to wait.

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Under all the excitement and nervousness and everything else, there's a very small part of Jenny that can't help feeling a little guilty. She's been so fortunate in Darrow, and she knows it, even down to the day she arrived, thinking she'd lost Cameron only for the two of them to run into each other at the same doorstep. Of course she's lost people, and that's never easy, but he's been a constant, and now, it feels a little bit like she's getting to have everything she could have wanted and then some. Back home, this would never have been possible. It would have been a family or a career, a husband or an education. There are no choices to make now except in how she manages her time, and she's with someone who'll support her no matter what decisions she winds up making.

Not everyone has been so lucky, though, and it's hard to want to share good news with someone who's lost so much. It isn't fair, she thinks, what Beth has had to go through, and the last thing Jenny wants is to add to that by rubbing her own happiness in Beth's face.

Regardless, though, it really will be nice to have a chance to catch up, and circumstances aside, there are few other people here she'd have been as eager to tell. It has her smiling already as she walks into the coffee shop and catches sight of Beth, carefully making her way over towards the couch in the corner. She isn't noticeably showing yet, at least, though that's bound to happen any time now, which is a relief. This is news she would rather deliver herself than have speak for itself.

"Thank you for saving us the couch," she says brightly. "Gosh, how are you? It feels like it's been an age."