There was a time when Linus was starting to get weird and clingy and Bella just didn’t notice at first, she was never good at catching subtlety and considering the last year, she had just dismissed at Linus finally coming around to pace where they could be civil.

Like most things , it was moment that set her radar off. They were standing in his living room, Bella had come to grab a few things that she had left behind when she had finally managed to physically leave. It was the way he was looking at her. His words were kind, but his eyes were… wrong. She couldn’t actually say what exactly it was, but she knew in her gut, that it was wrong.

She never wanted to get away from Linus as much as she did in that moment

The tim armour that Linus always wore in her eyes was breaking down revealing the slimey lizard that had always been. His mask wasn’t slipping. It had slipped.

He was eager to help her, he was saying all the right things. All it did was repulse her.

With each kindness he sent her way, she wanted to carve more distance.

So she did.

To do it, she used another broken string the disentanglement of Bella and Linus