“Can I ask you something? Was I hard to live with?” “Nooo,” said Troy, without taking a moment to think about it. “I just wasn’t ready. You’re complicated, you know? I thought you were a problem that needed solving. But you don’t need solving. You need understanding. I was too young and too scared to figure that out.” After a lengthy silence, she curled up into a ball. “Thank you for that, Troy.” “So. Does he make you laugh? Really laugh?” “He does, actually.” “I’ve always wondered if there was someone who’d do that for you. When we were together, I felt like someone else had stolen all your
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awh :/
