Joy had to lean forward and narrow her eyes as she tried to dissect Graeme's whole verbose, insanely rambled speech. If it hadn't been for the fact that she'd known him so long and had gotten used to the way he went on like he was now, she wouldn't have caught a single word--but as it were, Joy knew Graeme Dorny inside and out.
Whether she bloody liked it and wanted to admit it or not.
Her lips remained tightly pursed even as he finished, for once not allowing herself to betray any of the emotion that she was feeling. And she was feeling a lot of emotion at his words, but not the kind that she thought she would be. What surprised Joy the most was that she wasn't welling up and crying when he talked about his continued seeing of Giada, although when she looked at it really... she shouldn't have been. Honestly, Joy didn't even give a shit about what Graeme did with Giada any more, and the only reason she was mad was because he had handled it like an idiot. But still, she didn't care that he had a girlfriend like she did at first. Within the past couple months, Finn had been distracting her enough that she was just... over it. She didn't need Graeme to herself to keep happy--all her feelings had been invested in someone else, and thank Merlin.
Take that back. No feelings had been invested. They'd... disappared or something, but definitely hadn't been invested. Not in Finn, especially.
Joy ran a hand through her hair and sighed, finally showing an inkling of being something other than the woman on the warpath. She looked at Graeme for a long moment, then shook her head, dropping her hand back down to the table. "Look," she said, her voice surprisingly calm. "I want to thank you for apologizing for being an idiot. I accept it, and there's really nothing I can tell myself to help myself continue to be angry at you. The whole thing with you and Giada, from the being with her to the way you handled telling me... I'm over it. I'm sorry for how this is going to come out, but there's so much more to my life now than you. It's important to me that you're in it, but I'm not going to stay tied up on you--I don't have to let myself stay tied up on you, and I've been shown that. Our relationship was over a long, long time ago and, well... I totally accept that now. And on those grounds, I've got no reason to keep being upset with you." Tentatively, she offered up a smile. "So, what do you say... this goes behind us?"
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