Greatwater Lake Before we ever learned the fear of being bold

Friends? Any particular ones? She couldn't help needling him a little, poking to see what kinds of things he'd really been up to. Sans details, of course. Please god, sans details.

She'd been planning to ask him but the conversation had kind of gotten away from her, first talking about Killdeer, then making sure he knew to keep it shut around their parents. Honestly, she'd just kind of assumed. So when he asked, it took her a surprised moment to register that of course it wasn't a given that he'd be joining. He had been doing other shit for like a year now.

Weird how easy it was to slip back into old habits.

I don't know. What kind of audition were you thinking? She asked, completely straight. If he wasn't outright inviting himself along then she was free to have a little fun with this. She... well, she did make the rules now, didn't she?