"You don't ask easy questions, do you?" She breathes a slight laugh, shaking her head as she eats the last of her ice cream distractedly, thinking. What is it like? It's not a simple question to answer.
"It's more compromises and work than movies make it seem, but with the right person it doesn't feel quite so much like work. It's... companionship, and partnership in all things. Taking care of one another. When it's good, it's kind of like this ice cream. But when it's with the right person, it's the ice cream and all your favorite fixings besides."
She's sure Tony is looking for something more concrete and less inexact and flowery, but she doesn't have anything else. "At least I like to think so. I've never actually had it that good," she tacks on with a slightly self-deprecating quirk of her lips. "Which is another thing the movies get wrong. Simple math alone says the odds are inevitably against you, aren't they."
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Date: 2015-11-19 09:57 am (UTC)"It's more compromises and work than movies make it seem, but with the right person it doesn't feel quite so much like work. It's... companionship, and partnership in all things. Taking care of one another. When it's good, it's kind of like this ice cream. But when it's with the right person, it's the ice cream and all your favorite fixings besides."
She's sure Tony is looking for something more concrete and less inexact and flowery, but she doesn't have anything else. "At least I like to think so. I've never actually had it that good," she tacks on with a slightly self-deprecating quirk of her lips. "Which is another thing the movies get wrong. Simple math alone says the odds are inevitably against you, aren't they."