She nods. "I don't mean to worry you, honestly, or make you feel like I don't trust you. It's just..." She shrugs. "There are still a lot of things you don't know, and I don't know if I'm ready yet to talk about it. By tomorrow, this will all be done with, so I _have_ to finish."
She sighs wearily, sitting down on the couch. She suddenly realizes just how tired she is, how hard she's been working herself. The absense of pressure on her feet is actually painful, and the migraine that had been threatening to manifest for days begins a dull throbbing behind her eyes. "This is all for the house. I need to finish what I started there. But there's... more to it than we talked about. Maybe when I get back..."
She shakes her head. "My family's complicated. There was a silence that wasn't to be broken, things that never got talked about it. It was always, 'keep it all in the family. No one knows, no one ever has to know. No one else understands.' And on some level, I still believe that's true. Some things people don't understand, never will. It's just the way things are, the way I _have_ to be. Don't take it personally, because I _know_ you do."
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She sighs wearily, sitting down on the couch. She suddenly realizes just how tired she is, how hard she's been working herself. The absense of pressure on her feet is actually painful, and the migraine that had been threatening to manifest for days begins a dull throbbing behind her eyes. "This is all for the house. I need to finish what I started there. But there's... more to it than we talked about. Maybe when I get back..."
She shakes her head. "My family's complicated. There was a silence that wasn't to be broken, things that never got talked about it. It was always, 'keep it all in the family. No one knows, no one ever has to know. No one else understands.' And on some level, I still believe that's true. Some things people don't understand, never will. It's just the way things are, the way I _have_ to be. Don't take it personally, because I _know_ you do."