Thread: Walking through grief WHO: Ambriel Triádhosand Alex Jiang WHEN: After this WHERE: Camden
"It's hard to lose someone you know cared," Alex started. Ambriel met him in town and they got past the pleasantries pretty quick. Ambriel didn't look much less or he wanted to talk, and Alex could get that. Thinking you had the answers and everything was gonna be great and then suddenly things weren't. He didn't have personal experience with that, but he could at least have an idea of that. It wasn't just that Ambriel's family told him that God said no, but the fact what they did to make their point. Someone died. And if someone dying at what was meant to be the celebration of a union wasn't bad enough, it was the guy who pretty much raised Ambriel.
Alex paused near a street corner. A car drove by, not giving the two a passing glance. "How are you dealing?" he asked. Ambriel's particular situation was hard, and also different than Alex's, and even Alex had to go through the stages of grief. Davian wasn't equipped for that, and he didn't have a lot of people to talk to who could help. But maybe this would be good for the both of them. Alex was understanding how his inability to grieve had contributed to a lot of his behavior. Maybe not the full scope, but pent up feelings were dangerous. He wondered how many people had tried talking to Ambriel without pointing out what he was doing to davian. Alex was gonna try to not make his best friend such a focus, but eventually Ambriel would need to know what he was doing to Davian, whether he meant it or not.
The path ahead was clear, but Alex didn't move to cross the road just yet.