[It makes him sad. Really, really sad — because from the way she's phrased that, he knows. He knows she knows the difference between what it felt like and all the realities that might have been. Riley has found people here who understand, or who are at the very least willing to listen, to open their hearts, to hear. To help.]
[It makes him sad, thinking about her looking back on her choices and regretting. But all he can do is be here with her now.]
[His weight rests slightly more heavily on her shoulder.]
I wonder if she thought some of the same things. That there were things about her life that had gotten so complicated you couldn't understand.
[Mirthless, he smiles briefly.]
I don't understand a lot of these things. The complexity of . . . being part of something like the school, the team. So I worry about getting it wrong, but . . .
Do you still think that now? That she wouldn't have understood.
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[It makes him sad. Really, really sad — because from the way she's phrased that, he knows. He knows she knows the difference between what it felt like and all the realities that might have been. Riley has found people here who understand, or who are at the very least willing to listen, to open their hearts, to hear. To help.]
[It makes him sad, thinking about her looking back on her choices and regretting. But all he can do is be here with her now.]
[His weight rests slightly more heavily on her shoulder.]
I wonder if she thought some of the same things. That there were things about her life that had gotten so complicated you couldn't understand.
[Mirthless, he smiles briefly.]
I don't understand a lot of these things. The complexity of . . . being part of something like the school, the team. So I worry about getting it wrong, but . . .
Do you still think that now? That she wouldn't have understood.