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inchargemarge · Site Admin Joined: 25 Apr 2016 Posts: 7947

Fauna considered herself to be beautiful, and it is something she embraced about herself. But mostly she liked to be ooh’d and awe’d at by Ivan. It was really only important to her, to be looked at by him. It meant she could look at him too, and she loved to look at him, he was beautiful. But it’s become habitual now, the way he turns away from her, and made the hair on the back of her neck, bristle. Her eyes narrowed, and her face soured, as a deep scowl set in.

She sort of moved to duck in front of him, blocking him with the intention to be in his line of vision again.

“I know.” She said. “So why are you looking away?” Fauna was petite already, especially against Ivan. Her heels didn’t offer much in height, nor did leaning on her tip toes. Still she tried.

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Ivan blinked, a little taken aback by Fauna’s very clear annoyance painting a grimace on her face.

“I’m sorry?” He sputtered a bit.
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She maneuvered again, so she was glaring up at him more directly (if possible).

“You’re looking away from me, you never look at me anymore.” Fauna challenged.

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“What? That’s not true.” Ivan protested, though he knew that Fauna was right. “I’m looking at you right now.” He said, though flustered still, albeit for a different reason than usual.
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inchargemarge · Site Admin Joined: 25 Apr 2016 Posts: 7947

“Only because I called you out on it.” Fauna pressed with her brows knit tight above her eyes. “And you’re looking at me like you don’t want to, like your embarrassed or guilty, or something.” She said with her lips pursed.

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"Oh! No, no, no! It's not like that!" Ivan protested with a hurried and flustered wave of his hands at Fauna's suggestion.
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“What’s it like? You’re acting completely different than before.” Fauna challenged again. Fauna remarkably didn’t flush easy, even with the fair pigment of her skin. Though her face wasn’t red, her face felt hot on the inside, like little coals burning in her cheeks. She wanted to keep fighting, push him into submission and make him admit, that he has fallen out of love with her. But she hadn’t eaten in a couple of hours, but which was bad for the baby, and she needed to be eating every couple of hours if she wanted to keep her weight manageable. This time, for her baby, she would submit.

“Whatever, let’s go to dinner. Prove me wrong, then.” She huffed, throwing her coat on, shrugging it over her shoulders. Her tone was sort of deflated, but her expression was still very much annoyed.

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“What?” Ivan felt like he’d just suffered mild whiplash. While neither he and Fauna could hardly say they had outright fought in their relationship, Ivan had seen Fauna pick fights with others and she was not one to relent easily. And even if she WAS relenting…he didn’t like that she was clearly still mad. “Fauna, wait, please.” He reached out to grab her hand, brows furrowed with flustered anxiety.
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Fauna snapped back to face Ivan as he grabbed her hand. She didn’t say anything at first, she was studying his face, deciding if he was pleading with her out of sincerity or desperation.

“What? Say it.” She said finally, her tone and expression lighter, though still clearly cemented in annoyance. This was her conscious effort, to back down enough to give Ivan room to explain himself.

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Ivan's mouth hung open for a second, wondering if it was best to just be honest even if it ruined the surprise of the proposal he'd spent so much time and effort planning. Was it even worth it if Fauna was so mad at him that she'd turn him down? Also, he didn't even have the ring with him, he'd left it in the care of the restaurant to be brought out in their glasses of wine. Would she believe him or would she think he was trying to save face if he told her?

"I...I'm sorry, I am, okay? I didn't realize I wasn't paying you mind. I've just been so consumed by-by things. I'm sorry. I'll be better." Ivan sputtered, squeezing Fauna's hand.
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Faunas eyes narrowed again, darting over his face to evidence of deceit. She wanted to argue it couldn’t be easy as that. But he did appear sincere, she could see his back was to the wall, and Ivan wouldn’t put himself there intentionally. It was just hard to believe his behavior could shift the way it had, and Ivan noticed no change? Her expression softened finally, minutely, but Faunas face was rarely relaxed. She was still skeptical to some degree, he could still end their relationship tonight, but decidedly, and would be taking that risk.

“Alright.” She said, some hesitation in her voice still, but overall it appeared she was relenting for real this time. “Okay, I believe you.” She assured with a gentle nod, and squeezed his hand back.

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Ivan’s shoulders sagged with clear relief and he let go of Fauna’s hand only to reach up and cup at her face. His cheek heated with nervousness as they had been prone to do whenever he looked at Fauna too long while he planned away these last few weeks, but he forced himself to look at her either way.

“I’m sorry. I love you. You look beautiful and I very much want to take you to dinner tonight.” He mustered.
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Fauna allowed to herself to relax, she turned her face into his palm.

“I love you too, take me to dinner.” Fauna said then with the softest and vaguest smiles.

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“Yes, let’s go eat.” Ivan said before giving a flash of a smile and leaning down to kiss Fauna’s temple. He released her then and offered his arm to her.

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Despite reaching some sort of “resolution” beforehand, the drive to the restaurant was tense at best thanks to Ivan’s freshly bloomed anxiety. He was worried about messing things up in an entirely different way now. Before, he worried that perhaps he’d fumble a few words in his proposal, maybe find the ring was too big or too small, worried that maybe Fauna wasn’t ready for the next step, but now he was worried about upsetting her in brand new ways.

Had he been so careless? So distant? What did he need to do to o fix that now?

If he focused too much on that however, he would SURELY mess up the proposal in a much stupider fashion than he’d initially feared.

The thought had made him stiff all over again as he passed the car keys off to the valet and went over to Fauna’s door to collect her.
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Fauna was feeling relieved, but the car ride felt tense still. Ivan was quiet, but Fauna reasoned, she did just pick a fight with him. It should be expected he might be a little reserved after that. She took his arm as they got out of the car, looping her dainty hands around his arm. While she hoped he really didn’t have ulterior motive with this dinner, he could still react negatively to her telling him about her pregnancy.

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