"I mean..." Heidi stopped as she tried to gather the proper wording. Taking Tracey's hand, still entwined in her own, she placed it in her lap and fidgeted with it. "I mean I want us to work. I want us to have a relationship this time and neither one of us mess it up. I know it will take effort on both sides, but I'm willing to try again and put the past in the past if you are. I want...I need you in my life Tracey."
Heidi let Tracey ask her her series of possibly hypothetical questions before answering. "I think you had the right to live your life however you wanted to after...we broke up. I had no control over it and I don't feel entitled to pass judgment on a part of your life I wasn't a part of. I mean, I can hardly say anything judgmental about whatever sex life you may or may not have had without looking like a hypocrite with my sordid sex life..."