"I was thirteen and a half and Piotr was nineteen when we met. We didn't start dating until after I was fifteen. But then he met someone and was immediately smitten. Had a child with her." She smiles awkwardly. "I know this was never the best relationship. I think I kept trying because of the history too." She raises an eyebrow. "And just for the record: Piotr and I didn't have sex until after you and I slept together." Even twenty-one to her fifteen, she knew that she was being taken advantage of. Maybe not intentionally, though she couldn't say for sure either.
"We tended to go along with how we had a history together and were more or less comfortable with one another."
She nods. "And you let me go when you thought that was what I wanted too. No, I get it. You've always let me make my own choices and didn't try to steer me into ones that you thought were best for me." She takes another sip of her tea.
"This time, I would like to let Piotr go. He's on leave in Russia at the moment. No idea when he'll be back."
She starts to smile again. "Do you know why I like having you around, Pete? You make my life simple. As crazy as my life has been, and as crazy as I know yours has been, I never felt the weight of the world on my shoulders around you. I think I was trying to capture that feeling with Piotr--give to him what you have given so effortlessly to me. And yet, that isn't who he is, nor do I think who he wants to be. His idea of simple living is vastly different from mine." But hers and Wisdom's seemed compatible.
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Date: 2018-09-24 03:50 pm (UTC)"We tended to go along with how we had a history together and were more or less comfortable with one another."
She nods. "And you let me go when you thought that was what I wanted too. No, I get it. You've always let me make my own choices and didn't try to steer me into ones that you thought were best for me." She takes another sip of her tea.
"This time, I would like to let Piotr go. He's on leave in Russia at the moment. No idea when he'll be back."
She starts to smile again. "Do you know why I like having you around, Pete? You make my life simple. As crazy as my life has been, and as crazy as I know yours has been, I never felt the weight of the world on my shoulders around you. I think I was trying to capture that feeling with Piotr--give to him what you have given so effortlessly to me. And yet, that isn't who he is, nor do I think who he wants to be. His idea of simple living is vastly different from mine." But hers and Wisdom's seemed compatible.