This is a short update. I wanted to get some practice geared more toward emotional ideas and what not.
Odin began to lean close to Ava. Pedri had encouraged this bold move, now was the time to take action
"P-P-P-Please…I-I-I….." He had no clue where his sentence was going.
Odin reached out while sitting down, the Arrow's were not very touchy-feely, but Ava was different, he just didn't understand why she wouldn't hug him. He felt like he was doing it all wrong, he must have been too forward or too needy.
"I don't know if I can do this…..I'm sorry. I'm sorry." Ava's face kept heating up, her glow filled the room around them. She twitched and shook as Odin closed in for a hug.
Odin stopped. He knew it, she thought he was a joke. She didn't want to hug him because she hated him. She had never felt the same way he did, either that or she had finally realized that he wasn't worth it. Why had he ever thought this would work ?
"I-I-I-I-I j-j-j-just….n-n-n-n-n-n…"
He couldn't even finish a simple sentence. He had tried and failed, just like everything else.
"You blistering fool. You're losing her again ! Fix this now."
He wished he had some way to magically pull Florem Mortem from his ears. His own personal demon cheerleader was not helping at all.
"My wife's host can see how much of a sad-sack of unredeemable waste you are. I don't understand how she and I can even bother giving you the time of day."
"Odin…?"
"H-huh ?"
He looked down, in the time that his demon had been taunting him she had moved closer.
"I think you're really great…."
What ?! This made no sense to Odin, why had she rejected him ? If she thought he was great then why had she trampled his overture of affection.
"I….just…I haven't been touched by another human being for a long time…" She paused continuously. Ava likewise was nervous of being laughed at, she feared that he would finally see how weak, stupid, and clumsy she was.
She knew that the second he came into contact with her, he would be burned and realize that he had never felt a thing for her and that she was a freak.
"That's why I didn't want you to hold my hand…back at the TiTAN HQ."
"O-Oh."
Maybe they both had a lot to learn.