Sometimes, it feels like it ought to be easier to hide that way.
[There's more. So much more. How it hurts, instead, to see him or anyone else suffering like him turn away from the help of his friends. All of it is a burden he is not well enough to hear about - not when he has so many of his own already, and not quite enough strength to bring them along.]
And sometimes, time for yourself is exactly what you need. But not if the reason is something like...like trying to protect others from "dealing with" you.
[Mia shakes her head again, wanting to offer him more than words.]
If you want to talk any more about that now, you can, but you don't have to.
[17th]
[There's more. So much more. How it hurts, instead, to see him or anyone else suffering like him turn away from the help of his friends. All of it is a burden he is not well enough to hear about - not when he has so many of his own already, and not quite enough strength to bring them along.]
And sometimes, time for yourself is exactly what you need. But not if the reason is something like...like trying to protect others from "dealing with" you.
[Mia shakes her head again, wanting to offer him more than words.]
If you want to talk any more about that now, you can, but you don't have to.