Re: Oliver/Misha
I think that would be real kind. [...] I ain't going to stop seeing people I care bout. That ain't something I can do, and I reckon Damian knows me well enough to know that bout me.
I am, and you can.
I think you'd like it there. The folks are real strange, but they're like kin, and everyone's real protective of everyone else. It's a nice place to be, and safe feeling.
[He reads slow.] I reckon he wants to know why you behaved how you did, rhubarb. But, and I'm being real honest here, this ain't how sibling relationships are. Siblings don't talk to each other like this, and I reckon he's as tied up in being how he is as you are in being how you are. I told him I thought it was wrong, him pulling away how he did. Working it through with you, that's one thing. Disappearing when he loves you, that's another. And I think it's real complicated with you two.
In short, you ain't doing a thing wrong. I think he's got anger built, and you got anger built, and maybe it'll just take time. The best thing you can do, is find your footing by your ownself. And you won't be alone, even without Jude here. He can go suss his own problems out too, and maybe you best talk again once there's been some space.
For what little it's worth, I didn't see this coming on his side neither. But if you want to answer him and maybe give him what he wants, then you tell him why you clung to him so hard, and you tell him how you feel bout him for real, and you tell him how things are going to change if you still feel how you did. I reckon that's the best you can give him.