It twisted his soul and stomach in knots after, especially when she wouldn’t come out and tell him right away. He couldn’t bring it up fast enough about how he vowed in the car not to ever keep a secret from her.
“That’s very thoughtful,” she replied. “Secrets can hurt, I do understand… It’s just, life is hard at home. There’s stuff I don’t have answers to and I’m still trying to figure it out. None of which I have the strength to go back into any time soon. I just… I just want to forget it all. You know, like make up my own alternate universe like this ridiculous assignment.”
“Yeah but that doesn’t tell me why you don’t know if you’re going to see the next day,” he countered.
“I...I know. I just, I guess I just, I don’t know,” she replied, already back to her broken speech.
“Whateve
