"Don't be delusional. Half of the people died in the first round itself. There's no way that we'd be able to get through this," Emanuel had no hope for the future.
I couldn't succumb to the idea. So, I told him, "I cannot give up like this on me and Lucy."
"I am not asking you to abandon your obligations. I just want you to get practical for once," he was trying to manipulate me into succumbing.
I grabbed his hands and pleaded with him to see things from my perspective as well, "Why don't you try to see things my way instead? You want to use me for s****l gratification, and you don't even love me. How am I supposed to go ahead with your view of things?"
"You aren't thinking things through. I'm not suggesting getting involved just for me. It will serve you as well," Emanuel wasn't rea
