[ That's also what she always tells everyone else. It's...strange, to hear it repeated back.
She doesn't stop crying for awhile. Eventually, it fades, to shaking shoulders and hitched breaths, and she finds herself pulling away, gently, after that. Rebecca still can't bring herself to be comfortable in the arms of a man she's recently met for long--but, it helps...it helps knowing she's so many more friends, to have her back.
Still, she can't bring herself to look up at him. Breathy and quiet, it's like she wants to disappear into the ground. ]
Th- thank you, I... [ Breath catches. ] I d- didn't mean to...completely fall to pieces, but I- ...w-well, I guess I was overdue.
[ It's a miserable statement, a half-joke, but it's true; just about every week, she's crushed by another new revelation...or the weight of those that keep piling up. ]
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She doesn't stop crying for awhile. Eventually, it fades, to shaking shoulders and hitched breaths, and she finds herself pulling away, gently, after that. Rebecca still can't bring herself to be comfortable in the arms of a man she's recently met for long--but, it helps...it helps knowing she's so many more friends, to have her back.
Still, she can't bring herself to look up at him. Breathy and quiet, it's like she wants to disappear into the ground. ]
Th- thank you, I... [ Breath catches. ] I d- didn't mean to...completely fall to pieces, but I- ...w-well, I guess I was overdue.
[ It's a miserable statement, a half-joke, but it's true; just about every week, she's crushed by another new revelation...or the weight of those that keep piling up. ]