As Daiane turned to face her, there was only one thing stopping Embry from breaking down right then and there and that was Hera Zhou. Bloody hell. She thought to herself, rolling her eyes as they lit into her. She tensed up and was about to fire back, telling them to f-ck off because it didn’t concern them but just as she opened her mouth to say something, Daiane interrupted and Hera left to go deal with whatever Persephone was about to do, leaving Embry feel somewhat satisfied.
She lead Daiane over to a mostly spot of the dance floor, towards the back so they could hear each other better. When they stopped moving, both stood awkwardly and Embry tried to think of how to put everything she was feeling into words. There was so much she wanted to say to her, so many things she had to apologize for but for some reason, none of the words she could think of felt like the right ones to use. Before she could anything, Daiane began to speak. Even though it was what she wanted, Embry was still surprised to hear that she’d opened the envelope and a small smile appeared on her face.
“Do I get to say that?”
And just like that, Embry was reminded of how harsh her words were a month ago and Daiane saying that made her feel a thousand times worse about them. “Thank you, I’m really happy that you liked it.” She said as Daiane finished talking. Her words were genuine. Hearing what Daiane thought about her portrait, and that it was positive, really made her feel happy. She paused for a moment before continuing, making sure that she was confident in what she was going to say. “And you can call me whatever you want, Daiane.” Even though it was somewhat contradictory to what she was saying, she felt that she had lost the right to call Daiane by her nickname. “I never should have said that to you. Any of it.”
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