Re: Luke H/Wren M
[He stares at the phone's screen for a little while. His responses are slow, but they come.]
Don't you know by now that I could never hate you All we talk about is this. We go in circles because I don't know what else to do. I want the truth, you're afraid to give it to me, and it doesn't go beyond that. How can it? I know things won't ever be like they were before, but I don't actually want to be angry at you forever. I don't want to feel how I felt when you left every time I talk to you. [...] What do you think you taking off did to me, Wren? Things were hard, I realize that, but I thought-- I had you. Nothing got better for either of us after you left. [...] How does lying about something like that keep me safe? If I left you, and then told you it was because I didn't want you anymore, how would you feel? I told myself if we ever met again I wouldn't make the same mistakes I made before. No matter what you said, I'd stand firm, and that way you wouldn't get close. I thought of ways to make you hurt like I did too, so you'd know, but I couldn't. I want to hate you, but I can't.