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Dated early June, 2011:
Since Mark is staring, she stares right back, as casual as she can make herself be. Maybe a lot of bad things she's heard and seen over the last few months revolve around this guy, but he's just a guy. Sure, he created a website that's basically a world-changing phenomenon, but he's still just a person, and she has to remember this - not to be on her best behavior, necessarily, just to treat him like she would anyone else until she has reason to think she was right to think the worst of him when he wasn't here. (No judgement, her parents would say.)
Mark and Olive meet by accident, and wind up embarking on a new project.
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She didn't want to hate Mark. She doesn't hate Mark. Hating Mark would make so much more sense. Instead what she has is a sense of wary concern mixed with enthusiasm, the latter ebbing away the further she gets from their conversation, feeling increasingly like a betrayal in its own right. She can try and smooth it over any way she likes, but it still feels a bit like a deal with the devil. (It's easier to think ill of Mark when he's not in front of her, not an actual, living, breathing person in his own right, complex, a puzzle to be fit together. She wasn't raised to hold a grudge, wasn't raised to hate; she thought, with him, it might stick anyway.)
Olive heads home, but her conscience soon takes her to see Eduardo and tell him she's met his other best friend.
[ HERE | in progress | PG-13]
Since Mark is staring, she stares right back, as casual as she can make herself be. Maybe a lot of bad things she's heard and seen over the last few months revolve around this guy, but he's just a guy. Sure, he created a website that's basically a world-changing phenomenon, but he's still just a person, and she has to remember this - not to be on her best behavior, necessarily, just to treat him like she would anyone else until she has reason to think she was right to think the worst of him when he wasn't here. (No judgement, her parents would say.)
Mark and Olive meet by accident, and wind up embarking on a new project.
[ HERE | complete | PG]
She didn't want to hate Mark. She doesn't hate Mark. Hating Mark would make so much more sense. Instead what she has is a sense of wary concern mixed with enthusiasm, the latter ebbing away the further she gets from their conversation, feeling increasingly like a betrayal in its own right. She can try and smooth it over any way she likes, but it still feels a bit like a deal with the devil. (It's easier to think ill of Mark when he's not in front of her, not an actual, living, breathing person in his own right, complex, a puzzle to be fit together. She wasn't raised to hold a grudge, wasn't raised to hate; she thought, with him, it might stick anyway.)
Olive heads home, but her conscience soon takes her to see Eduardo and tell him she's met his other best friend.
[ HERE | in progress | PG-13]