( If Eleven had her attention before, she has laser focus now, after hearing that name. This is important. She knows this is something important, it must be — and that instinct in the back of Laura's mind is proven doubly correct when the other girl lifts her arm onto the table and reveals a number.
It's like Erik's. Similar, not the same, but close. Laura's hand curls around her wrist, holding it gently in place so that she can stare at it for a long, long second.
She's still holding it when she finally drags those eyes up again to meet Eleven's. )
Before I was Laura, I was Twenty-Three.
( This girl has to meet Erik. She decides it immediately. All three of them were numbers once. Erik has been very good for Laura and to Laura. Maybe he'll be good for this girl, too. Eleven. El. Because this girl's friends call her that, the way Gabriela called her Laura. If that's what she picks, then that is her name. )
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It's like Erik's. Similar, not the same, but close. Laura's hand curls around her wrist, holding it gently in place so that she can stare at it for a long, long second.
She's still holding it when she finally drags those eyes up again to meet Eleven's. )
Before I was Laura, I was Twenty-Three.
( This girl has to meet Erik. She decides it immediately. All three of them were numbers once. Erik has been very good for Laura and to Laura. Maybe he'll be good for this girl, too. Eleven. El. Because this girl's friends call her that, the way Gabriela called her Laura. If that's what she picks, then that is her name. )