Saturday morning sees Bella with her notebooks about magic all in her knapsack, her medallion safety-pinned by its chain to her bra just in case she trips the wrong way, waiting with Charlie for pickup for the Avalon trip.
"I didn't ask you," Mike tells Savannah. "Anyway, some people were giving her space because she wasn't feeling sociable after her mom died, what are you going and asking her out for this soon?"
Darren stares at Mike, for a little while. Then he growls, "You're acting like she is a prize to be won. Like if you had gotten there first she would have fallen into your arms like some plush doll you win at a carnival and you're upset with me because I got there first. She is not either, she has preferences and it seems like you don't know any of them. There is no clever subterfuge or me treating her like you seem to think I am. I was nice to her, she was nice to me, I got a crush, and then I asked her out. Simple as that."
"Wh- I didn't say it'd be definite it'd be me, maybe it'd have been Eric or somebody, I'm saying it wasn't fair. You didn't just get there first, you had like - a perimeter defense."
"No, I'd asked her what she wanted me to do, and she wanted people to leave her alone, so Savannah and I helped with that. Frankly I don't care if you think it's fair or not, it was based on what she wanted, which is important and you seem to be ignoring it entirely."
"Actually," says Savannah, "he did. He didn't pry in the slightest, avoided the entire subject of her mom, and did not expect her to be buddy-buddy, he did jack shit except give her some notes and show her to where her classes were, then invite her to sit with him at lunch. She became buddy-buddy 'cause my brother's not a fuckwad. Unlike some people I could mention."
"If you hadn't been running interference for him I would've invited her to sit at my table at lunch, too, since apparently that was allowed after all, if she even asked you to tell everybody about her mom after all."
"You have absolutely no basis in what she wants or doesn't want," says Darren. "You continue to miss the point. It is not about 'fairness' on some kind of deranged romantic battlefield, it is about Bella's preferences. She did not want to answer lots of questions, so she spent time with people that did not ask them. That is that, none of this - manipulative high school drama that you seem to be crafting in your head."
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