[If this were video he would be able to see the shock his last remark had just given her. But it's not. So what he hears is a space of silence, and a very even timbre instead of her recovery from what amounts to an audible (not entirely undeserved) slap.]
It's delightful. Those emotions seem to be doing no one any favors.
[He's grieving? She doesn't care. Not after these past weeks, and her nerves are on edge. The timing of this only makes it worse.]
Give me half an hour. I'll knock once. I'm not staying.
Unless you want me to.
[She doesn't want to. Won't. But she can't resist a little dig, especially after his question.]
[Half an hour should give him plenty of time to crawl in the shower and force himself to look even the tiniest bit more presentable... and it'd help hide the fact that he's been crying it's been raining almost nonstop since he got home.
[voice]
[If this were video he would be able to see the shock his last remark had just given her. But it's not. So what he hears is a space of silence, and a very even timbre instead of her recovery from what amounts to an audible (not entirely undeserved) slap.]
It's delightful. Those emotions seem to be doing no one any favors.
[He's grieving? She doesn't care. Not after these past weeks, and her nerves are on edge. The timing of this only makes it worse.]
Give me half an hour. I'll knock once. I'm not staying.
Unless you want me to.
[She doesn't want to. Won't. But she can't resist a little dig, especially after his question.]
[voice]
[Half an hour should give him plenty of time to crawl in the shower and force himself to look even the tiniest bit more presentable... and it'd help hide the fact that
he's been cryingit's been raining almost nonstop since he got home.