a very clear foot in mouth moment for him 😅

He wants to, she just keeps dodging him 😅

With a reason to be in her vicinity secured, Matthew approached the table. Part of him hoped she'd notice him walking toward him, but she seemed determined to be lost in whatever thought she was stuck on.

Instead he opted to clear his throat to get her attention. Finally, she looked up at him.

OK, Landgraab, he psyched himself up. It's now or never.

He walked over to the food cart and ordered the steak and veggie bowl. He tended to avoid the onsite cart because he found their produce source questionable and their meat quality lacking, but he would stomach it just this once.

He stood frozen for a while, thinking of how best to approach. If he just crept up on her like he had tried to do in the studio, she might just get up and leave. So perhaps what he really needed was a reason to be near her outside of just needing to talk.

He took a deep breath.

ah, yeah, she did kind of inadvertently set him up 😅

who can hook me up with a key for this? I want to live my best black girl life in this cozy game 🥹

if hurts someone it does tend to bother him quite a lot 😅

it still bothers him how much he hurt Cordie when he stole that kiss from her when they were 11. He genuinely just doesn't tend to feel good when he knows he caused another person harm

it's because he knows he's the one who caused this situation so it's bothering him because he knows he was wrong and wants to make it right 💁🏿‍♀️

hair art is so very her 😄

he's not used to being the one whose ignored and avoided 😅

that simply 5-letter word is always so hard for him 🫠

it's not really the best situation to clear your head when you inadvertently start beef with your co-star 😅

I think it makes sense that would be something he could easily ignore, especially when he knows he's the one who made things strained between them

certain ways for certain jobs and because the public only knows them through their work and not the real them people project whatever personas they have to assume onto who they really are as person when that's often so far from the truth and definitely something Feather's been a victim of.

I'm glad you're enjoying the characterization! It was intentional when I introduced Feather for her to look like the type a girl who would seduce a guy or be a mean girl, but I definitely wanted to subvert that expectation especially as relates to girls in entertainment as they often have to present

he's been trying, she just hasn't given him a lot of opportunities to broach the subject 😅

this is actually definitely not a Diana thing 😅

Matthew has always had anger issues he's struggled to keep under wraps. Diana has him in therapy and has encouraged him to use his therapy tools over hitting things, but Matthew's always been resistant to that

he's definitely a work in progress in that department 😅

To be fair though, it didn't help Diana telling him he can no longer do the one thing he'd been using to emotionally regulate for a while now. Can't really blame for blowing a gasket the second his security blank is ripped away 💁🏿‍♀️

the boy is nothing if not self-aware

ya know, when he's not losing his cool and immediately regretting it 😅

oh he 100% feels bad and regrets blowing up on her the way he did 😬

Matthew's just pretty antisocial so it makes it difficult for him to know how to talk to people and become friends 😅

For the few friends he has, it's because he actually wants those friendships. He'd never pity befriend anyone. If he were that accommodating, he'd have a hell of a lot more friends 💁🏿‍♀️

she'd have been well within her right 😅

she definitely didn't deserve any of that 🥲

baby girl 🥲

yup, that was the reason for sharing that info. Diana want him to stay focused on the job and not get distracted by a potential fling with some girl she deemed wouldn't be anything serious

definitely, definitely came on too strong. But that had less to do with trying to get ahead of rumors and more her just being excited and eager to make a new friend. The intensity of her loneliness is something she's constantly trying to mitigate

sadly, it'd have been deserved 🫣

he was inclined to believe they were just that, but she came around at a bad time for him, so he went and put his foot in his mouth 😬

she really didn't deserve that 🥺