Elizabeth 'Liz' Argentum (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
flamesburned) wrote2022-09-04 07:12 pm
flamesburned) wrote2022-09-04 07:12 pm
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A Mall on the Mainland - Sunday
It had been a very long and tiring week and Liz knew she still had a few more days to get through, when it eventually came to the anniversary of her family’s death. On Tuesday it was 14 years since her parents and brother had died in that first fire and she had been so tired and miserable, she knew she had to push herself, to keep going.
Liz had been so exhausted after Friday and the worry about the fires, even though they weren’t real, that she had finally fallen asleep Friday night and had slept for most of Saturday.
She was feeling a bit more alert but she was still rather tired.
Liz had been finding that her normal clothes were starting to get a little tight on her, she had definitely been noticing it in the last couple of weeks as her stomach had started to form a little bump. So arrangements had been made with Summer and Dr. Lecter to take her maternity clothes shopping on the mainland, especially to help keep her distracted while everything had been going on with the different anniversaries.
She really didn’t know a lot about shopping and fashion but she knew Summer and Dr. Lecter did, actually they were the only people she knew who knew anything about fashion.
“There’s, there’s a lot of people here,” she couldn’t help but remark as she looked around the mall, it had been a while since she had last gone shopping and had been around this many people.
She was still rather nervous about maternity clothes shopping but she knew it needed to be done, especially since her clothes weren’t going to fit her much longer.
{for the two who are with her on this trip! NFB due to distance!]
Liz had been so exhausted after Friday and the worry about the fires, even though they weren’t real, that she had finally fallen asleep Friday night and had slept for most of Saturday.
She was feeling a bit more alert but she was still rather tired.
Liz had been finding that her normal clothes were starting to get a little tight on her, she had definitely been noticing it in the last couple of weeks as her stomach had started to form a little bump. So arrangements had been made with Summer and Dr. Lecter to take her maternity clothes shopping on the mainland, especially to help keep her distracted while everything had been going on with the different anniversaries.
She really didn’t know a lot about shopping and fashion but she knew Summer and Dr. Lecter did, actually they were the only people she knew who knew anything about fashion.
“There’s, there’s a lot of people here,” she couldn’t help but remark as she looked around the mall, it had been a while since she had last gone shopping and had been around this many people.
She was still rather nervous about maternity clothes shopping but she knew it needed to be done, especially since her clothes weren’t going to fit her much longer.
{for the two who are with her on this trip! NFB due to distance!]
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This week had been a big week for Summer realizing she should really pay more attention to things like calendars around here, but, in her defense, it had been a very eventful month, and she was definitely tunnel-vision mode for whatever week was in front of her because otherwise she might start to feel a little overwhelmed with everything going on.
"Not that I've had anyone show up for yea---Wait, nope. Nope, that's not true, two years ago, my ex-husband showed up, that was super awesome....let me tell you..."
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Liz felt really bad she hadn’t even thought to ask Summer, she knew she was with Barry but she hadn’t thought to ask about other relationships or anything like that.
She really needed to work on being a better friend.
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Because, yes, Summer, every one of those details screamed NBD.
"Which made it all the more annoying when he showed up practically three years later trying to get me back, and I had to be all, 'no way, dude, I left you in that mutant sandbox for a reason, god, can't you take a hint?'"
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Yes Summer had said it wasn’t a big deal but Liz couldn’t imagine surviving through an apocalypse.
She paused, “did he eventually get the hint?” since there hadn’t been any mention of him in their previous conversations, Liz assumed that he had eventually left.
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She was honestly more traumatized by the fact that her grampa had replaced her with a robot while she was there, but that was a whole 'nother plotline to pull at later.
"Yes," said Summer, with emphasis, rolling her eyes, "thank god. I had Seivarden get him drunk and convince him what a total bitch I was, so that he'd come to his senses and it worked like a charm. I mean, I'm pretty sure if we ever did cross paths again, he'll probably want to murder me this time, but I can't really blame him. I did kind of do him dirty.
"But," Summer added, "he was also, like, forty and marrying a high school student, soooooo....you know....I'm not going to feel that bad about it. Also, his moustache was terrible."
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Even she had to pause at the part about Summer’s ex husband being 40 when she had been in high school.
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And, with that, her attention shifted slightly. "Maternity store, five o'clock," she reported. "With an expected kids clothing store right next door, and I now realize that if we don't also leave with the start of a new wardrobe for the baby, we are literally the worst friends."
Or maybe Summer just really wanted to squee over adorable baby clothing now, especially since the baby was absolutely not her own.
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It was the happiest she had looked in a few days, which admittedly wasn’t saying much compared to how she had been, anything was an improvement.
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"Not gonna lie," she said, "picking out baby clothes is probably way more fun than maternity clothes, anyway."
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There was only a pause, though, before she admitted, "Actually, probably not, dark colors really do suit you better; all that crap would just wash you right out, and with how little you've been eating and sleeping," cue the long, lingering, slightly-judgey, mostly-reprimand-y look over, "...you don't need to make it worse."
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Which considering she’d gone nearly two days without sleep wasn’t really saying much.
“I … it was really bad for a while there and there’s still Tuesday to get through… that…I know that will be bad,” she admitted, “which I … I know I don’t have the best coping mechanisms,”
That was a very big understatement Liz.
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And then there was a pause, as she went back to something else Liz had said and now looked over with some concern.
"What's Tuesday?"
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Yeah, Summer could maybe see why that might be a little rough.
She eyed Liz, head tilted slightly.
"You got any plans for it?"
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She still really liked the sound of that.
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And a surprisingly healthy and reasonable coping mechanism considering both their histories with such things.
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