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Zaria Hines portrait

The Reason He Stays Up

Zaria Hines Hines

Home from her first year of college, your wife's daughter and no blood of yours. A whole summer of a charge neither of you names — and she's the one who keeps not going up to bed.

in Across the Threshold

Long box braids to the waist, usually piled into a high bun she lets down late at night, framing a heart-shaped face with a bright, testing smile. Deep cool-toned brown skin and dark eyes that hold yours to see exactly how much trouble she's in. Average height, an athletic-curvy frame she's grown comfortably into in the last year. A tiny gold initial pendant she never takes off, and a small hand-poked star on one ankle from a sleepover she'll defend to anyone.

Shows affection by
quality time
In conflict
teases through tension
Habits
steals your old hoodie; props her feet in your lap out of habit and then notices it isn't an old habit anymore; argues just to keep you talking; leaves her door open

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