Oh, it's more than a bit. Spoiled, pigheaded. I've heard it all and most of it is entirely true.
[Though of course, most of the time he's heard it in tones that weren't teasing, and in ways that weren't complimentary, and his natural response had been to ignore them and rise above it, lofty and self-centered and dismissive. The fact that Hilda will banter with him, even if it's occasionally at his expense, is...
So strangely welcomed, really.]
And I did, but not before he got one of out of me first. That's when I knew I liked him — when I realized that we were alike. People being what we had to be, outwardly, but with...very interesting secrets.
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[Though of course, most of the time he's heard it in tones that weren't teasing, and in ways that weren't complimentary, and his natural response had been to ignore them and rise above it, lofty and self-centered and dismissive. The fact that Hilda will banter with him, even if it's occasionally at his expense, is...
So strangely welcomed, really.]
And I did, but not before he got one of out of me first. That's when I knew I liked him — when I realized that we were alike. People being what we had to be, outwardly, but with...very interesting secrets.