PEPPERMINT

28/06/11

Pairing: Rose/Lorcan

Prompts: charm, fairy & blaze

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Best Friends.

People say they are the ones with access to the windows of your soul. They have the ability to read their best friend like an open book, flipping through easily and already knowing by heart what each page said.

It's not the case for Rose. She can't read her best friend Lorcan, sure he can read her. Lorcan could read her with his arms tied behind his back and blindfolded. He knows every exhalation, every tone, every expression. And he was like her own guardian fairy, watching her and stopping her from acting foolishly, stopping her from coming ablaze and like fire, leaving a path of destruction behind her.

Rose found it charming at first, that she wouldn't have to speak and he'd know what she felt, wanted, needed, well besides one thing.

Then she felt insulted, which was strange for her. She felt insulted when he would hand her, her favourite type of peppermint tea, the bag still in the cup, along with a dash of honey, just at the right time when she was feeling upset. Because she couldn't do the same for him.

When she realised, to put it plainly, that she was in love with her best friend, she was quite beside herself. Completely ecstatic knowing that Lorcan didn't know, and this was her one secret from him, the one thing she knew that he didn't know about, that he couldn't read just from looking in her eyes.

She was content for a while, accepting his cups of delicious tea, acting completely fine knowing she had an actual secret. Then impractically, she felt insulted again. Insulted knowing he couldn't read her anymore, that he couldn't tell that her eyes lit up for him, that her casual elbow and knee bumps weren't by accident and weren't playful. That her eyes didn't just drift to his lips because they were covered in her favourite chocolate.

So she told him, her arms folded with a knowing grin forming on her face, as natural as possible. And he was shocked to say the least, finding it humorous that he couldn't tell she loved him, but what he found most humorous, was the fact that she couldn't tell he loved her, either.