Sara

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Matt, who’d relaxed slightly at the word ‘brother’, tenses again. ‘Fighting about what?’ His forehead crinkles slightly and he glances around me. ‘Did you spill vodka in here?’ ‘She threw it, actually,’ Brian says. ‘The bottle, that is. At me.’ ‘I didn’t throw it at you,’ I say. The viciousness in my voice surprises me. ‘It didn’t even touch you.’ ‘Will you just calm down?’ Brian’s starting to lose his composure, I can tell. Matt’s appearance has completely thrown him, and it’s like he doesn’t know how to deal with me any more. ‘Why does she need to calm down?’ Matt asks. ‘What did you do?’
Sara
Sometimes, for big emotional scenes like this entire chapter - the fight between Brian and Suze after she finds out about his betrayal - I write it from multiple perspectives, just to ensure I'm hitting every note from every angle, rather than missing another character's emotion because I'm not in their head. Of course these extra scenes never see the light of day, but they're very helpful for writing. This whole chapter also exists from both Brian's and Matt's POV. I always think of that specifically on this exact bit of the scene, when Brian is trying to gauge exactly who Matt is, and if he'll be on his side at her expense, and Matt shuts it down immediately. Suze is oblivious to the subtext of this interaction, and it would probably take one or two extra readings for readers to pick up on it. But it's there!
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