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Winter Carnival | All Day | The Park | January 31 [Post #1]

It was a new day and there was no better way to start a new day than with the continuation of the carnival. There was still snow coating the ground but the atmosphere was as lively as ever. With cream-colored decorations and twinkling lights, the Student Council had aimed for a winter wonderland kind of theme, and the snow simply added to the effect. Thankfully, the day was turning out to be warmer, so those who were going to be outside all day wouldn't freeze. Once the finishing touches were done, the carnival was open for business.

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They didn't have any rules attached to this. Hardly needed to use an excuse at all. Nothing for her to object to. Rarely was going to be any logic attached to a sting of jealousy.

"Just looked busy," she answered vaguely, and shrugged. "Can't just be loitering and smoking every time spot you, right?"

No, he didn't need an excuse but the reasons for it were something she'd probably need to hear. Or something he was going to tell her anyway since she couldn't stop doubting him.

"What did you see, Effy?" he asked tightly. "Quit being vague."

Effy barely repressed her immediate inclination to roll her eyes. "Had a girl in your lap," she said finally. "So?" He was allowed to.

"Yeah, I did. Emma climbed into my lap," he said, nodding. "You see anything else but that? Or was that it?"

"Had a carnival to make the most of," she said, in explanation. "Didn't really stick around." He could do what he wanted, didn't mean she needed to see any of it, thanks.

"Right. Let's just get to the crux of this continued issue," Alex said, thinning his lips. "You saw me with another girl. You think I left the carnival and screwed her or something? Come on, let's hear what you think."

"What issue," she threw back. "You're the one turning it into that." Effy would've been perfectly content to leave it well alone and pretend she'd seen nothing.

"I want to know what you think I did," Alex snapped, ignoring her question for the moment. "You saw me, you know me, so let's hear it."

"Think it's a kissing booth," she said simply, snagging a little more spun sugar between her fingers. "Generally get what you pay for." In her experience, anyway.

"Yeah, I'm sure you'd know that since I got to see you pay for it," Alex said, keeping his voice calm but stiff. "What you wanted, right? Make me see that?"

Effy huffed a humorless laugh. "Wasn't for your benefit." Half-decent distraction for her, though.

Hadn't been especially discreet, but at the same time, not planning a show. Assumed he was busy elsewhere anyway.

"Hear it's tradition." Not one where she was from, sure. But she'd done it before.

"Please, you knew I was there, I'm sure I factored into that decision," he retorted quickly before just stepping back and shaking his head.

"You know what, fuck this," he added sharply. "I hate what I sound like right now. I fucking hate it. And I hate what I feel like. That girl climbed into my lap but that was it. I didn't kiss her, I didn't screw her. I talked to her. Because I made a promise to a friend and because I knew you were around and I kept thinking about you."

Or, well, he kept hiding her because he hadn't wanted Emma to see. Same difference, she was still on his mind. He still sounded like a fucking a pansy. "I think I'm done with you always thinking the worst of me though. I'm done with it."

"And you're just full of the sweetest assumptions about me right now." Thinking the worst was just going around, wasn't it? Decided she'd been trying to make him jealous? Taste of what she was getting?

"Goes two ways."

There were worse ways than a couple of moments losing herself in the kiss of a stranger.

"I'm trying not to assume but you haven't really denied anything" Alex replied, gesturing with his hand. "I just told you what you saw."

"Obviously something's tilted here," Alex replied, trying to ignore that little stinger. "I thought about you because I couldn't not. And I didn't want to do anything with someone else. If you thought about me, it didn't make a difference. So, what's that tell you?"

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Nothing good, was it? Effy mulled that little lot for a few moments behind firmly closed lips.

"I think about you. Even when I don't want to." Like yesterday, when yeah, she'd seen enough to sting. She shook her head. "Very short term solution." All came back to load on her later anyway.

"You thought about me and went to kiss someone else?" he guessed, not really liking that association. "Is that how it went?"

"Rather I didn't think about you?" she asked. "Or just kept my lips to myself?"

Answering either of those questions honestly was something he really didn't want to do right now. It'd only open up more cans of worms.

"I am not going to be the one that's always saying shit," he finally said. "No. You don't get to ask the questions while staying all quiet and safe. Do you not want to see other girls on my lap?"

His non-answer combined with the way this conversation had gone so far actually kind of answered her question for her. Same way her silence probably betrayed her.

No, she didn't much like seeing it. But, came with the territory and she knew it. Couldn't really argue against it. Pretty fucking good at staying quiet and safe, and still difficult to pull her out of it, even at times like this.

"You're not going to say anything?" he asked, sounding a little less angry and a little more...something.

Effy bit down on her lips. Not saying anything was comfortable for her. So yeah, tempted to keep her mouth shut again. Out with it just wasn't her style, and couldn't really bring herself to admit it so directly.

"Is a reason I didn't keep watching," she said finally. Didn't want to see, no.

"What reason?" he asked, snagging that little statement and using it to push her. It could end up going badly, he knew that, but he didn't care. He didn't do safe and easy, apparently.

Honestly, it was simple enough. It was that uncomfortable weight in her chest, that fucking feeling that made her turn right around and try for the rest of the afternoon to get rid of it.

"I--" But that was something to admit, and she wasn't good at that. "Some things I just don't want to see." Or want to think about.

"So, it made you feel better to go find someone else and make sure I saw it?" he asked, voice quiet. "I don't care if you say it wasn't for my benefit. You knew I was there."

She knew. That much was true. Hadn't been much of a deterrent considering Effy assumed he was busy not paying a hell of a lot of attention to what she might be doing.

And for those brief moments, yeah, that kneejerk reaction had made her feel better about her day.

"Not exactly a secret that it's not--" Exclusive? Defined at all? Was generally one of those things they studiously ignored when they weren't purposely poking at weaknesses. "Never has been." And doing her own thing while he did his, was all she'd seen it as.

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