[There was a moment where she almost felt bad for talking about her sudden happiness when Elena had been looking so down before she arrived. Like she was being selfish. But Elena looked happy for her, and maybe this was the brief distraction she needed from whatever it was that she'd found so troubling.]
I realized...I was basically letting the dome tell me what I could and couldn't do. And I was tired of giving into them all the time. So I finally gave into something else. I even finally talked to Richie about things too. [Oh, yeah, that was another story to get into.]