Slowly, he turned his gaze to Rebecca and shook his head in response. “If by okay, you mean completely dead inside and wishing I didn’t have feelings, then yeah.”
“Er-” Cue a sigh as he rubbed the back of his head. “Sorry. That came out meaner than intended. I’m not doing so good.”
“Do you want to talk about it?”
“And it’s okay, it didn’t sound mean to me.”
She sat next to her brother, wanting to be there for him instead of what they had been doing before. What she had been doing before was stupid.
Back in the Game 