Abby was about to go back to her book but then Carter was.. sobbing? What the hell? Abby's eyes grew wide for a moment before she realized how she was reacting. What ever was going on in his life, it had to be worse than just being rejected when asking for an educational make out session. Unless Grace wasn't telling her something... Abby blinked a few times as she watched Carter cover his face with his hands.
What was she supposed to do? Abby wasn't the comforting type. She was the one who listened and gave you really bad advice - Mandy was the one who listened and then comforted you. 'What would Mandy do?' She thought as she tried to remember times when she had cried in front of Mandy. Abby drew a blank on what her sister would do and instead referred to what she had seen in movies. She was supposed to touch him, right? And be nice?
Hesitantly, Abby pulled her chair over next to his and sat back down with her feet beneath her, propping herself up. Slowly she reached over rubbed his shoulder a lightly, praying he wouldn't push her away for doing something wrong. She tilted her head a little to look at his face that he had covered and gently pushed his hair out of his face with her free hand. She didn't know what to say but she said, "I'm sorry," as that seemed to be as good of a starting place as any.