[Yes. Yes, she was-- and that very conversation is poking up in the back of her mind right about now. It's infuriating in that way things are when you KNOW you know better but you just don't WANT it to be that way.]
[It's not that she's forgotten the lesson she learned the previous year-- hell no. Far, far from it. It's why she left notes for her father and adopted 'brother', why she came HERE to let out her anger on something harmless before she went and talked about it.]
[But that old stubbornness had kicked in a little-- that old embarrassment. It was easier since everyone had KNOWN she was friends with Kaito. She wouldn't have to go to the trouble of explaining her situation to people she'd been hiding it from. Wouldn't have to come to terms with her OWN shortcomings as much. But she still dreaded the prospect of talking about it... putting into words. That was why she'd stayed out here well into the evening.]
[So at Cooper's innocent suggestion, she PUFFS for a moment, and then spreads her arms, tone defensive.]
I'm not punching a WALL.
[.... Heather jeez he never said that you WERE stop projecting disapproval where there isn't any.]
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[It's not that she's forgotten the lesson she learned the previous year-- hell no. Far, far from it. It's why she left notes for her father and adopted 'brother', why she came HERE to let out her anger on something harmless before she went and talked about it.]
[But that old stubbornness had kicked in a little-- that old embarrassment. It was easier since everyone had KNOWN she was friends with Kaito. She wouldn't have to go to the trouble of explaining her situation to people she'd been hiding it from. Wouldn't have to come to terms with her OWN shortcomings as much. But she still dreaded the prospect of talking about it... putting into words. That was why she'd stayed out here well into the evening.]
[So at Cooper's innocent suggestion, she PUFFS for a moment, and then spreads her arms, tone defensive.]
I'm not punching a WALL.
[.... Heather jeez he never said that you WERE stop projecting disapproval where there isn't any.]