Aboli was not going to speak because if she did, she would cry. And again, SHE DID NOT WANT TO CRY. She only cried with certain people and none of those people were here, and so she would NOT CRY.

But then Curtis showed up with those very sweet flowers and Aboli couldn't help it. Why hadn't she brought flowers? How had he had time to pick them? She gave Curtis a curious look before snifffffffling a whole lot and feeling the veeeeeery strong urge to bury her face in his shoulder. But she didn't.

She blinked a whole lot to let the few tears fall gently down her cheek. No choking sobs or audible crying here, sans the sniffles.