Her logic behind the notes, insofar as there's conscious thought behind it, is threefold. Staying in Hap's good graces is important to her -- he's not wrong there -- and keeping out of his way is the easiest way to avoid trouble. Add to that that both of them are keeping odd hours: some days Hap gets sucked into his work, only emerging late at night; some days Bella naps for hours and gets up just to eat dinner before Hap locks her room again. (She thinks the numb feeling that precedes these days is boredom.) It's easier to handle some things this way than hope their paths cross.
Those are practicalities. The things she needs the notes for. What she likes them for is that they feel -- normal. Like the two of them really are just housemates. The last time she lived with anyone for an extended period was undergrad, and she and the two other girls splitting rent on off-campus housing had left sticky notes all over the place, claiming food in the fridge, reminding each other about utility bills, scolding whoever used the last of the toilet paper and didn't replace it. Normal stuff.
She misses normal stuff. She'll take a facsimile of it, if that's all she can get. ]
cw: depression?; captivity
Her logic behind the notes, insofar as there's conscious thought behind it, is threefold. Staying in Hap's good graces is important to her -- he's not wrong there -- and keeping out of his way is the easiest way to avoid trouble. Add to that that both of them are keeping odd hours: some days Hap gets sucked into his work, only emerging late at night; some days Bella naps for hours and gets up just to eat dinner before Hap locks her room again. (She thinks the numb feeling that precedes these days is boredom.) It's easier to handle some things this way than hope their paths cross.
Those are practicalities. The things she needs the notes for. What she likes them for is that they feel -- normal. Like the two of them really are just housemates. The last time she lived with anyone for an extended period was undergrad, and she and the two other girls splitting rent on off-campus housing had left sticky notes all over the place, claiming food in the fridge, reminding each other about utility bills, scolding whoever used the last of the toilet paper and didn't replace it. Normal stuff.
She misses normal stuff. She'll take a facsimile of it, if that's all she can get. ]