Wren is still angry at himself, at who he was, for breaking Rian's heart;
he hasn't gotten over Rian breaking his, for making promises he couldn't
keep and for not seeing how pointless it was to do. Maybe he'd never
admitted, even to himself, he was offering a heart to break. Maybe that was
the problem, and maybe there were so many problems there's not one to
blame. But they're both forgiven, anyway, even if he can't be content or
over the past. It's not something he can let fester inside him anymore. Not
after everything.
Definitely not with Lexi in town.
"You have always succeeded very well," he says, letting a smile curl at the
edge of his lips, but then she's wrapping him in a hug tight enough to
break ribs and he didn't know, until this moment, just how much he needed a
hug from her, to feel like she wants to give him one.
He wraps his arms around her and picks her up off her feet, one of the few
along with Hana who's shorter than he is, presses his face into her hair.
He wants to say I've missed you, I'm sorry, a million things,
but instead he sets her down and tries to maintain some semblance of
dignity.
Wren can't even be indignant that Rian knew first; Rian was Lexi's before
he was, anyway, she's why they all tumbled into each other in quite the way
they did. But he does arch an eyebrow at that. "Did he say that? Those
exact words? Did you happen to record this?" He grins mischievously and
nods, the grin turning into a self conscious smile, all too aware of how
stupidly, dangerously in love with her he is. "Hana," he says, and signs it
at the same time. There's something a little unnatural to him about just
saying her name, because she doesn't say it out loud. It's like
transliterating badly. "She is. Amazing." He smiles wryly. "And patient,
when I don't deserve it. You'd like her. She keeps me in line pretty well."
"But enough about my love life. You can get that on the Enfants forums."
Not that he'd know, or anything. "What are you doing here? ...And what do
you want to drink?" He needs some caffeine for this conversation.
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Wren is still angry at himself, at who he was, for breaking Rian's heart; he hasn't gotten over Rian breaking his, for making promises he couldn't keep and for not seeing how pointless it was to do. Maybe he'd never admitted, even to himself, he was offering a heart to break. Maybe that was the problem, and maybe there were so many problems there's not one to blame. But they're both forgiven, anyway, even if he can't be content or over the past. It's not something he can let fester inside him anymore. Not after everything.
Definitely not with Lexi in town.
"You have always succeeded very well," he says, letting a smile curl at the edge of his lips, but then she's wrapping him in a hug tight enough to break ribs and he didn't know, until this moment, just how much he needed a hug from her, to feel like she wants to give him one.
He wraps his arms around her and picks her up off her feet, one of the few along with Hana who's shorter than he is, presses his face into her hair. He wants to say I've missed you, I'm sorry, a million things, but instead he sets her down and tries to maintain some semblance of dignity.
Wren can't even be indignant that Rian knew first; Rian was Lexi's before he was, anyway, she's why they all tumbled into each other in quite the way they did. But he does arch an eyebrow at that. "Did he say that? Those exact words? Did you happen to record this?" He grins mischievously and nods, the grin turning into a self conscious smile, all too aware of how stupidly, dangerously in love with her he is. "Hana," he says, and signs it at the same time. There's something a little unnatural to him about just saying her name, because she doesn't say it out loud. It's like transliterating badly. "She is. Amazing." He smiles wryly. "And patient, when I don't deserve it. You'd like her. She keeps me in line pretty well."
"But enough about my love life. You can get that on the Enfants forums." Not that he'd know, or anything. "What are you doing here? ...And what do you want to drink?" He needs some caffeine for this conversation.