larosedemai:

▐ ░  ❦——-; There’s a sheepish duck of her head where guilt floods in. She hadn’t meant to startle him. Already her anxiety is picking up, and in an effort to quell it, she’ll pick relentlessly at a loose thread on her cardigan.

                 ”Oh——- um… C——-Corinne. And you?”

                                                       <sub>❝I’m Seth Clearwater.❞
                                       ❝——————… Seth’s my name.❞

                                                          ❝Just Seth though.❞
❝It’d be kind of weird to go around saying ‘Seth Clearwater,’ instead of just Seth ! ❞</sub>    

               _{Even though awkward situations and more uncomfortable circumstances called for feigned indifference, he opted to remain jovial and enthusiastic about the potential for new friends.}