Buzzkill(er)

"So, Alaska huh? Is that a fake name or did your parents just reaallyy like the state?" I put on a smug smile as I was walking alongside her down the street.
I had managed to get her out of that god awful cafe with a bit of help provided by my charming looks and incredible wit.
She was holding around herself as we were walking, the snow still falling lightly from the sky.

"I don't know, you tell me." She returned the smirk, and took a step closer to me. Brushing her shoulder up against me as we were walking. The oldest trick in the book, also a perfect "101 how to flirt" trick.

"Well, if you don't tell me I just have to guess don't I?" I move my hand closer to hers, carefully touching her leg. All this while also distracting my blunt moves by talking.
"Honestly." I continued. "The state thing sounds a bit too much, so Imma go with fake name."

I look into her eyes again, they were so different from Clementines, but yet so alike. They had the same secretive vibe.
Like when you see, and know, this very Christian do-goodie girl. You see a complete prude, and someone who would never ever disobey whatever the fuck the bible or her community would tell her, but goddamn she's the biggest freak you've ever met. She got the worst sex bunker you could ever imagine, and she's most likely the dominant one.

Its a weird comparison, but the secret behind both their eyes seemed like it. Something that looks so pure and untouched, but is just a goddamn filthy mess.

"Being named after a state is too much, but having a secret name and taking the effort to fool everyone around me is perfectly normal?" Her smile had gotten slightly bigger, and slightly more honest.
She wrapped her pinky finger around mine. Obviously another flirting 101 trick.

"Yeah why not, who am I to judge you for whatever you've done?" I look at our hands. "I mean, you've obviously done something if you have to get a new name, and probably a new personality." I smirk at her. I know this will work, it worked with Clementine.
She giggle at my joking tone, but also because of my smirk. I was successful on charming her, and I know I was going to be successful on getting her home to the basement.

"You're weird." She looks down at our hands, hiding her face and smile behind her hair. "But you're not as weird as Emma has told me." she looks up at me again, looking me in the eyes.

"Oh?" my smile faded slightly, and I put on a confused and concerned look.

"She has told me a lot." she keeps looking me in the eyes. "Like, she has gone on and on and on about how mean and manipulative and just bad you are. I can't say I didn't believe her, but you seem different. like seriously, she would tell me I would notice you're bad news from the moment you opened your mouth!" She take her other hand and push some of her face. She almost looked like she felt guilty for telling me this, and for actually believing I was bad news.

"oh.." I put on a more saddened look. Honestly I didn't feel at all influenced about what she had just said, I only felt more successful knowing she felt bad for thinking bad about me.
"I had no idea she felt that way about me.."

She just looked at me for a second, obviously regretting saying anything as soon as she saw my sad look. She wrap her hand more around mine and get a bit closer to me.
"Nooo, sorry I didn't mean to hurt your feelings!" She got her eyes locked with mine. "I thought you knew? I donno, by the way she was talking about you I just assumed you had done something bad."
She looked genuinely saddened by the way she had allegedly hurt my feelings.

I shake my head, and look away from her eyes down at our hands. I know how to keep my sad act up. I clenched my jaw before my eyes flash back at hers for a second.

"I'm sorry." Her voice sound different. She was in a state where she was contemplating whenever her best friend was such a good person after all, or if she should trust this stranger.

"You can come back to my dorm with me? Emma probably won't come home today cause of her girlfriend." her voice was softer again. She took a hand under my chin, but ended up just holding my cheek, looking me in the eyes again.
"And I probably shouldn't be alone at the dormitory right now. Theres a bad, bad man going around hurting people like me."

I look at her, shooting a glimpse of fake happiness through my eyes. I nod.

"Yeah, I'll come with you. Wouldn't want anyone to hurt you." the smirk returned to my face.

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