Borrowed Time Part 2

Chapter 239

"Jesus."

"I asked if I could be frank!" Becky said, her tone coming out defensive as she raised her hands up in surrender. Juliette let out a chuckle of disbelief and shook her head.

That was fair, she had said that.

"I just never expect you to talk like that, it always shocks me." She explained, and Becky frowned, looking confused.

"Really?" She nodded. "You think you'd be used to it by now." That was not fair, Becky had two settings and one of them was prude.

That was still true.

"Half the time you get embarrassed if someone talks about sex, it's hard to know what I'm getting." Juliette reasoned, and Becky scoffed, waving her off.

Rude. Next time I will eat your pinky finger. For protein.

"Easy." Was it? "Are we around my mother or inside of a church?" Juliette wrinkled her nose and shook her head. She didn't mind being inside the church, but being around Becky's mother was a fate worse than death, a fate that she hoped that she would never have to suffer through ever again.

"No?" Her words came out as a question, but she meant them as a statement.

"Then I'm franker." She said, and Juliette paused... Okay but like.. She'd talked about sex in church before, Juliette had been there for it.

"You've talked about oral sex in the basement of the church before." Juliette reminded her, and Becky shrugged like that didn't apply to anything, but it directly went against one of her rules - ergo, it had to be discussed because like...That was part of the church that Becky was in quite a bit.

"It's the basement, it's not real church." Becky reasoned and Juliette chuckled, rolling her eyes as she shook her head.  The entire church was a church... Becky's logic was a thing of great wonder, because... What the hell did that even mean, 'it's the basement'?

It's still part of the church.

"You..." Juliette was lost for words... mostly she couldn't find a really kind way to say 'confuse the hell out of me'... So she went with the only other thing that was in her mind about Becky. "Fascinate me." She said, and Becky furrowed her brows, frowning as she looked over at her.

"Is that good or bad?" She asked, and Juliette shrugged - that was a million-dollar question, wasn't it? Was that a good thing, or was that a bad thing? She didn't know, and she really doubted that anyone would.

"I really don't know." She said, and Becky scoffed, shoving her lightly as Juliette chuckled and shoved her back, gently.

She didn't deserve it, but that was her instinct - occasionally she had to go with those.

"So..." Yes? "You and Penny?" Becky asked, and Juliette nodded, feeling her heart flip at that... Her and Penny... God, she couldn't believe that was a real thing. That Penny wanted her... It was truly one of the most surreal things that had come out of that damn trip.

And she couldn't be happier.

"Mhm." She sighed wistfully, chewing on her lip. Penny had her. "I... Really like her." Oh! Clarification. "Esme and I are still together-." Becky cut her off before she could finish her sentence.

"Oh, I assumed." Juliette looked over at her, seeing an adoring, sweet smile on her face... But she wasn't sure why it was there, so it made her a little uneasy... She needed to know why or it needed to go.

"What's that smile for?" She asked, and Beck sighed, shrugging as she fiddled with her bracelets.

"I'm just..." Just what? She stood up, pulling Juliette up with her as she squeezed her hands. Why are we standing? "Realizing how far you've come... How far we've both come. It's really impressive." Becky said, and Juliette nodded. That was true, sometimes she got hit with that too. Hard to believe that a few months ago they weren't speaking really, that Becky was recovering from the hell of Camp Exodus and that she was... God, not doing well herself.