She smiled with a mouth full of stolen teeth and laughed with a cluster of stolen voices. A new eye slid into place with every blink, never breaking eye contact with him across the dinner table. Even her body seemed to change as new bones slid into place, almost imperceptible twitches across her arms and fingers which grew and shrank minutely.
Whatever she was, she sure as hell wasn't human.
She was kind though. Kind and friendly, laughed at his jokes and reassured him that she was nervous too but happy to finally meet someone who hadn't just run away from her without at least letting her say hello. It made him feel a little guilty that he'd planned to block her number and ghost her as soon as he possibly could.
That was still his plan of course, but having heard her talk about how she'd spent the morning painting her balcony and all the birds that visited, naming them after her favourite book characters, having gotten to know her a little he began to see less of her monstrous appearance and focus more on how they liked the same bands and hated marmite.
For the brief moment they were sat there as two normal adults, talking and eating, everything was fine. The arrival of a waiter and the offer of dessert broke the spell as she suddenly seemed to have entirely too many teeth to fit into a human mouth, her jaw creaking as she shook her head and gestured for the waiter to leave.
They parted awkwardly after that, one hoping for a text and the other hoping to never see her again.
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