[ She still feels almost stunned to hear it. And his question? How does she even begin to find an answer, after she's spent so much time thinking that she'd sacrificed their friendship and anything else when she'd made her choice?
She doesn't reply at first, offering a small shake of her head. ]
I don't know.
[ And she doesn't like admitting that, but she's still lost in the wake of everything that's happened. ]
I don't want it to have changed things.
[ That's honest, at least. She doesn't want to have effectively slammed the door on their friendship or even that unspoken thing between them (though can it hardly be called "unspoken" anymore?). But she's also terrified that now, he doesn't trust whatever she might say, and she has no idea how to begin repairing that. ]
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She doesn't reply at first, offering a small shake of her head. ]
I don't know.
[ And she doesn't like admitting that, but she's still lost in the wake of everything that's happened. ]
I don't want it to have changed things.
[ That's honest, at least. She doesn't want to have effectively slammed the door on their friendship or even that unspoken thing between them (though can it hardly be called "unspoken" anymore?). But she's also terrified that now, he doesn't trust whatever she might say, and she has no idea how to begin repairing that. ]