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malia week | day 5: favorite friendship/relationship | Malydia
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After the commotion of finally collapsing into the McCall house and expressing their relief at having Lydia back, no one noticed her slip away besides Malia.
She found Lydia huddled on the back steps, the coat borrowed from Scott wrapped tightly around her. Malia wasn’t used to seeing Lydia look so small--even with their height difference, Lydia always seemed larger than life to Malia. Sitting on the steps, legs folded up against her chest, she looked impossibly small and vulnerable, and Malia was struck with the intense desire to make it stop, make Lydia stand up and take charge and let Malia feel safe in her skin again.
“Hey,” she greeted softly, startling Lydia out of her trance. “You okay?”
Lydia looked back up at her, eyes wet, and nodded. “Yeah. Just--long day.”
Gingerly, Malia sat down next to her on the step, pressed comfortably into Lydia’s side. She didn’t really know how to move on from here. Should she try giving Lydia a hug? A pat on the shoulder? Malia was never good at the comfort thing, preferring to leave that task in Scott’s much more capable hands. She always ended up coming off either too touchy-feely or ingenuine, and the last thing Lydia needed after everything was to be insulted or made to feel uncomfortable.
“Do you want me to drive you home?” Malia asked, instead. “Or, I guess running into your mom would be bad. I can take you anywhere you want.”
Lydia offered her a weak smile, the first Malia had seen on her in a long time.
“Can you take me to your house?”
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