Audrey's eyebrow raised faintly, more of a questioning look than a surprised one. Doubtful, maybe. "You're not, though," she shrugged. It wasn't that she necessarily wanted him to be alone, because she absolutely did not want that. It was more the idea that the space that used to exist for her had steadily been getting smaller and smaller until she felt shut out entirely. If she wanted to find space again, she would have to force her way in, and that just wasn't who she was. She just didn't chase people.
"I'm sleeping fine," she said, sinking down into one of the garden chairs and fishing her vape out of her pocket. "It's just been so long since I've slept well that my body still thinks four hours a night is plenty. So I'm still awake at the dumbest times whether I want to be or not." And anything she might do to make herself sleep longer wasn't really conducive to quality sleep. But she had Joey, and their shared dream world had sort of started taking on a storyline, so she preferred to stick to that.
She exhaled a cloud of vape smoke and tapped the end of the pen against the inside of her knee. She looked like she was about to start talking again, more than once, before she finally sighed and rubbed her hand across her face. "I want to be able to say that I'm glad you and Richie have found each other again, and I think I am, but Richie is... he's a very... big personality and that spot in your life that I used to fit into, I don't feel like I fit there anymore. It's just gotten a bit crowded. And I realized very recently that I am not made for this sort of thing. I don't share well, and I don't like being shared. The thing is..."
Once she got started she needed to just get it all out of her system at once or she'd never be able to get back to the point. She couldn't look at him while she was doing it, though, which was the worst part. "The thing is, I'm not giving any sort of ultimatum here. I'm not asking you to make more space for me because it's not going to be what I need, regardless. I mean, I could ask. But it wouldn't be fair. I just don't want to have to fight for part of anyone. And, uhm. I'm sorry I totally blindsided you with this at seven in the morning."