"I just want..." The moment of passion faded before it had even begun, as Buffy lost the thread. But Elena had managed to shake something loose in Buffy, because after a moment she continued.
"I thought it would get easier," she said. "That this would be over by now. And then I could tell them, and it would be...funny thing that happened. Funny stranger than strange, not funny ha ha... And really not 'why you should be worried about Buffy'."
She looked down the street at the pools of light and darkness, and it seemed like she was about to say something more, but that feeling faded a little bit at a time and Buffy fell into a deep reverie.