action;
[ yeah she knows her daughter well enough to figure that there's more to this story than just that. ]
That's it? [ she pauses for a moment to sort through her thoughts. ] I mean, Tyler wasn't always here, was he? [ she didn't just miss his presence here, did she? and if she didn't, does it really count as cheating if he wasn't there. honestly, liz isn't the best at this sort of thing, but she doesn't see how anyone can hold people to the standard of expecting someone to arrive here at any minute and wasn't tyler on the run back home? there are so many factors and variables that liz is starting to wonder if anything is fair here. ]