"Tricky things about friends. They tend to worry regardless. Really annoying at times but... it's friendship. And if they really know you? They know when you're hiding things and worry anyway."
Okay. Maybe saying that friends worrying was annoying was wrong, but it really could be annoying. Especially when you went out of your way to try to keep them safe, to protect them from the painful things in life that they couldn't really help with anyway.
"Guess it's not fair to expect them not to when you do it yourself for them, though..."
It was a hard pill to swallow, but how many times had Elena thrown that in the face of others? How she would do the same for them so why be so surprised?
"Still, from my experience? Holding it in, waiting for it to blow over or get to a point where it should be easier? It just makes it harder. I mean, we're all different, but that's been my experience."
Sighing, Elena leaned her head back against the bench and looked up at the night sky. She missed easy. She really missed easy. When her biggest concern was a cheer competition, what dress to wear to a dance, grades. But that life had been gone for three years now and she while she had mostly let it go, sometimes, she just got tired. She was nineteen. Why should she have this sort of understanding?