<div align="center"><strong><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;">Building Tensions</span></strong></div><hr/><div class="floatleft">(https://i.imgur.com/fgm5IMb.png)</div><strong>NAME:</strong>Mallory Minato<br/><strong>DAY:</strong>June 15th, 2021, 11:30AM<br/><strong>LOCATION:</strong>Yuki Katsura Bridal Store (Outlet)<br/><strong>TAGGING:</strong>Leasick, Kevin<br/><strong>EXTRA:</strong>Awkward.<br/><strong>WEARING:</strong>Club Dress (https://i.imgur.com/ERzFVhw.jpg)<br/><hr/><br/>The way Leasick looked at her, giving her that same smile that seemed so genuine, made her heart ache. She knew what she had told him would hurt, would sting after what he had said, with how open he had been with her. He hand done all of this, in part, to help her take her mind of things, but more so to show his feelings for her. While she didn’t expect something as strange or outlandish as what had just happened, she knew that not answering Leasick would have inly been worse. To not give him an answer, to lead him on and make him wait; it wasn’t right.<br/><br/>“Leasick...”  Her voice was soft, worried as she felt him pull his hands away from her, taking one step away, and then another. She didn’t want him to be alone with what she had told him; if anything, she had wanted to make sure that he would be ok. Then again, in some situations like these, all that called for healing was to simply be alone with ones thoughts, and as Leasick made his way out the door, promising to pay for the clothes before meeting back at SOPHE, he slipped out of the room.<br/><br/>The sheer tension and awkwardness of the situation was palpable within the room, as now only Mallory and Kevin were left.<br/><br/>Alone. Together.<br/><br/>She momentarily glanced away from the redhead, remembering back to how they had split on bad circumstances, and honestly, none were Kevin’s fault. It had all been her in the beginning, which had caused this strange wedge in their friendship.<br/><br/>Well that, as well as the one thing they refused to bring attention to.<br/><br/>“So...”  Her voice was soft, as her brown eyes looked back at Kevin, her body language showing hesitance. What was she supposed to say to get things moving in the right direction? She had to apologize, as she had been in the wrong without explaining how she felt, and yet it was hard to put into words what she wanted to say. Her eyes looked towards Kevin, seeing his own somewhat nervous stance; they really were alike at times.<br/><br/>“I... wasn’t really fair to you, back in the car.”  She had taken a breath, knowing the only way to move forward through all of this, was to be honest.  “I’m sorry Kevin, for putting you on the spot like that.”  It hadn’t been fair to him, not as his closest friend, not as someone that cared about their friendship. Her gaze shifted to the ground beneath the heels she wore, suddenly self conscious, her hands coming close to her chest.<br/><br/>“It was wrong of me to use our friendship to make you feel guilty. You have every right to be mad at me.”  Honestly he did, now that she thought back; she had heard his words but hadn’t let him explain, and she let her own feelings get in the way of things; she wasn’t putting a good start to this mission at all.