Milk Bottle 12: In This Together

[bookblather]

Author: Kat
Title: In This Together
Story: In the Heart
Colors: Milk bottle 12 (Stand the Bottle)
Supplies and Materials: Graffiti (Lilith Faire Main Stage: Crazy On You, Heart), miniature, seed beads, canvas, oils (the daily grind), stain (The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy. - Alfred North Whitehead )
Word Count: 100
Rating: PG
Summary: She loved her hometown. She did.
Warnings: sexism.
Notes: Speaking of the teeny tiny town in Alabama where Ahava grew up... I'm sorry about the stain.


It's insanely hot.

Insanely hot. Maria can only lie naked on her sheets and sweat, listening to the cicadas scream outside. Lawrence is panting beside her, in the same humid boat.

She should be worried, she thinks vaguely. Her practice isn't quite getting off the ground, and public defending doesn't really pay, and she's six weeks pregnant and everything could implode at any minute, but it's so hot.

There's this too: she loves Lawrence with all her heart. If things do implode, well, they have each other.

Her hand creeps across the mattress and tangles with his.

There's always that.

Comments

[shipwreck_light]

You actually made me almost not like cicadas with this.

Almost.

And holy damn your summer imagery at large with me imagining that song in the background...

[bookblather]

FUCK CICADAS that is all.

Yaaaaay I'm so glad you like it! <3

[shipwreck_light]

Noooooo that sounds itchy.

...

Did you know cicadas are both musical and delicious is roasted :D?

[bookblather]

They are not musical they screaaaaaam. So death metal maybe.

And I will let you nom upon them by yourself.

[shipwreck_light]

Actually FUN FACT young cicadas are supposed to be delicious.

:X

[novel_machinist]

This feels heavy and yet hopeful.

[bookblather]

It's a bit of both! Thank you!

[rootsofthestories]

This feels like summer. Like...I can't explain it beyond that. It feels like summer

[bookblather]

Oh, lovely! I'm so glad.

[kay_brooke]

Summer and uncertainty...it can be wonderful. Or not.

But she does have Lawrence.

[bookblather]

She does, forever.

Thank you!