“I told you about her, right? How she killed herself when I was just a kid? I knew it messed me up but I didn’t realize until you walked away just how bad. I’ve never had a girlfriend before, and never made any kind of commitment to a woman. I realized that it was always in the back of my mind that they’d leave me too and I couldn’t take a chance on that happening again. My mom, the one person who should have always put me first…picked death over me. So if she did that, how could I trust anyone else to pick me? Peaches, when that bitch said all those things about you, I flinched back hard.
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