[ milly's been...well, okay, not exactly stewing, but she'd been pretty darn mad at riptide for how he'd acted a few months ago. enough not to want to talk to him in the interim, anyway. on some level she knew she wasn't going to be mad forever, that she'd eventually forgive him, because she just doesn't really like holding grudges, but she wasn't expecting this.
she thought she might not get an apology at all, or just a half of one, muttered out with a scuff of his foot against the floor, but not this. it's clumsy and not particularly articulate, sure, but it's heartbreakingly sincere. and that's all that really matters to milly. she listens to the message three times over before she jumps up and zips down the halls to riptide's room, banging down his door. very insistently. ]
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she thought she might not get an apology at all, or just a half of one, muttered out with a scuff of his foot against the floor, but not this. it's clumsy and not particularly articulate, sure, but it's heartbreakingly sincere. and that's all that really matters to milly. she listens to the message three times over before she jumps up and zips down the halls to riptide's room, banging down his door. very insistently. ]