Cissy did not respond to him taking a seat nearby her. She didn't really acknowledge him at all until he spoke, and then she just acknowledged him by crying even harder still before she managed to sob out. "No one's ever going to love me!" Yes, she was dramatizing it. But what Nic had said to her, she had taken to heart. And she believed it. And it was the end of her world as she knew it.
With a renewed bout of tears, she flung herself at the other man, arms wrapping around him tightly as she buried her face against his chest. "I don't mean to be bad. I really don't mean to. But I can't stop myself!" She clutched at his shirt and pulled herself up, practically straddling his lap.