Text Cut: Louisa
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Louisa expected him to give her a curt one-word answer, mostly like others who were hurt by her and then confronted her again, but Adam seemed to have rationalized everything beforehand and knew where he stood from both of his friends already. The time that Louisa spent mostly by beating herself up, and roaming around with that poker face, the boy had spent thinking and looking beyond the mere act of betrayal. However, when he started putting his emotions on the subject into words Louisa's lips parted and quivered holding a silent sob. She moved back until her back hit the wall, she did need some sort of support as she listened and accepted everything he had to say... and that was hard.
Her head seemed to lower even more, yeah it did hurt to have the girl that you just stopped dating kiss your best friend who in return already had a girlfriend! But again, the Ravenclaw didn't think before pressing her lips to Paulie's... she simply tried it. It worked. For about five seconds before the series of unfortunate events came down on them.
Adam now concluded that he still wanted her in his life, with a friendship that both deserved and one she understood where he really stood? What did that even mean? Louisa swallowed a couple of times, taking gulps of air so that her voice didn't came out as strangled as she felt it would. "W-what do you mean?" If he said it, if he really wanted to talk to her again even if not as much as before, but if he really could do this to save a friendship then that'd be the trigger to Louisa's tears. Because she never believed in forgiveness, not even to her family.
She wanted to lift her head and look at him, look into his familiar eyes and read them. But she was afraid.. he didn't seem bothered with her like this, maybe he wasn't really ready to look at her face just yet? Babysteps?
Adam looked at Louisa who had managed through the course of their talking to press herself up against the cement wall. He figured she was looking for some kind of support because of what he could tell of her body language, Adam had a feeling that she wasn't really handling this whole thing well. Adam had to admit that kind of shocked him because clearly Louisa was handling the whole ordeal about as well as he had, except instead of anger she had more hurt and depression. What did he mean? Adam ran his hand through his hair again.
"I don't think I was as honest with our relationship before as I should have been," Adam said with a little shrug of the shoulders.
"I think I've just always put the value of other people's happiness way ahead of my own because...I guess since I've never had it I've never really felt that I deserved it or needed it. But after this whole incident and having some time to myself I realize how stupid that is," Adam said, letting out a sigh.
"I do deserve to be happy. So...I guess what I'm saying is...that I'm not going to put other people ahead of myself so much. I'm going to actually put myself first for a change, and that's different." Adam looked up at Louisa to see if she was understanding this any better or if he still wasn't making sense.
"I mean...do you want to be friends?"