The man she had been talking to nodded and Dru smiled beatifically. This was the dance of social interactions; people, especially men, talked to her in order to give her an opportunity to be charming or witty, and when she performed to standards they acknowledged it with a gesture like this. Now it would be his turn to demonstrate that he was charming or witty — or something else, men had a wider selection of positive adjectives available to them — while she listened. This was a familiar cadence... which made the interruption to it all the more egregious. Dru cast a glance over her conversation partner's shoulder at the man who had snorted into his drink. He had a loutish build, but there was something strikingly familiar about his features. She knew him from school, she realized, though he had grown significantly since she had last crossed paths with him.
"Oh, I know you," she exclaimed, waving the man she had been talking with to the side so that she could fix them both properly in her field of view. "You're Eamon's baby brother, aren't you? I hardly recognized you."
The phrase baby brother was chosen purposefully; a push back for his having been eavesdropping, or for laughing.
"Oh, I know you," she exclaimed, waving the man she had been talking with to the side so that she could fix them both properly in her field of view. "You're Eamon's baby brother, aren't you? I hardly recognized you."
The phrase baby brother was chosen purposefully; a push back for his having been eavesdropping, or for laughing.
ty MJ <3