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[thebriar_rose]

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person

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[lost_altitudes]

Babycakes!!! What's the matter, sugar plum?

[thebriar_rose]

Oh, Aunt Brucie...I just don't know what to do.

[lost_altitudes]

Well, you can start by coming home, letting Auntie Brucie fix you a nice cup of tea, and telling her what on earth made our sweet little Rory Bear so sad!

[thebriar_rose]

I think Nana was right...I wasn't ready.

[lost_altitudes]

Pish, tush, and phooey, says I.

Rory Bear...this wouldn't have anything to do with the strapping young man passed out on my nice leather couch, would it?

[eyes_ofthestorm]

I DIDN'T DO IT.

[thebriar_rose]

Raim didn't do it, Aunt Brucie.

[lost_altitudes]

I think she did, in fact, dump a lush on my nice sofa and let him stink it up with Jack Daniels, and I think someone is going to be airing it out later, Rain Fisher!

[eyes_ofthestorm]

BRUCIE. HE WAS SMELLY AND DRUNK AND HE HURT RORY. But he's Jed, so I had to.

He's also got a very dark future at the bottom of the glass.

[thebriar_rose]

It's part of it.

...Most of it.

[lost_altitudes]

...I just found Rain hiding under her bed with the laptop, and I think I got the gist of things.

Your boy over here, he slept with another woman?

[thebriar_rose]

[lost_altitudes]

Babycakes...do you know her?

[thebriar_rose]

No. I don't see how it matters.

[lost_altitudes]

Tut tut, Rory Bear, just you listen to your Auntie Brucie. The first thing you will always learn is that sex can make miracles and topple empires. Everything must be looked at very carefully.

Did he explain what happened?

[thebriar_rose]

Yes. But I don't...I just can't...

I don't care what he says. It's not meaningless. It's not meaningless to me.

I just hurt. I hurt all over.