Embry kept her arms crossed as Daiane protested her accusation. She looked her in the eyes, but as her girlfriend continued, the emotion behind her eyes shifted from one of hurt to one of anger. “Right, so the points were just a little encouragement.” She responded sarcastically, rolling her eyes as she tried to convince her that she hadn’t been lying all those months ago. “You did lie to me, Daiane. You’ve been lying to me since Halloween!” She raised her voice, having lost all rational control over her volume.
“How am I supposed to believe that any of this was real when everything that happened on Halloween wasn’t?” She asked, no longer able to make eye contact with her. “Would you-” She stopped, taking in a shaky breath as she prepared herself for what she was about to ask next. “Would you even have done any of that if there weren’t points on the line?” The question had come from the deepest, darkest part of her mind but once it had surfaced, she had to have an answer, even if she wouldn’t like it.
“Embry, please, can we talk about this?”
“Talk about what?” She demanded, her hands unfolding and falling to the sides of her body. Simply ‘talking about this’ was no longer something that was possible but at this point she wasn’t sure what was real and what wasn’t, even in this conversation. “About how you expect me to believe that you got a task to kiss me and it’s just a coincidence that we kissed that night? That you weren’t completely manipulating me?” She looked, re-establishing eye contact so that Daiane could see her facial expressions.
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