[ Riley wants to shove him off the bench, but that would be a) rude and b) too attention-drawing. This is embarrassing!! ]
She— [ She's blushing quite hard now. ] She just...amazed me. She decided to do something, and she did it. She chose what she wanted to do, she- she chose...me.
[ She'd told Giorno something a few times. He's her first friend—that she's made on her own. The other girls on the squad never really...counted. She liked them well enough, but even before everything turned out how it did, she was always a little too overbearing. A little too much. The only reason she ever talked to other people before Ryslig was Cairo. So, when she stopped talking to Cairo, she didn't talk to anyone.
It was...lonely. ]
I never, like...told you about this 'cause, I- really didn't know...why she did. [ ... ] And 'cause I spent like four months not talking to her before all this but- mostly that one.
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She— [ She's blushing quite hard now. ] She just...amazed me. She decided to do something, and she did it. She chose what she wanted to do, she- she chose...me.
[ She'd told Giorno something a few times. He's her first friend—that she's made on her own. The other girls on the squad never really...counted. She liked them well enough, but even before everything turned out how it did, she was always a little too overbearing. A little too much. The only reason she ever talked to other people before Ryslig was Cairo. So, when she stopped talking to Cairo, she didn't talk to anyone.
It was...lonely. ]
I never, like...told you about this 'cause, I- really didn't know...why she did. [ ... ] And 'cause I spent like four months not talking to her before all this but- mostly that one.