[This is how Nate feels all the time, Parker catches herself thinking, and almost ends up bemused by it, because in the second after it passes through her mind, it occurs to her that maybe this is...empathy...or something...
The fact that he's screaming barely registers; if the volume bothers her, she doesn't show it. She just turns in, keeping their hands connected, and stands against him so that he can cry into her shoulder instead of into the open air.]
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The fact that he's screaming barely registers; if the volume bothers her, she doesn't show it. She just turns in, keeping their hands connected, and stands against him so that he can cry into her shoulder instead of into the open air.]
Bad stuff happens because of bad people.
[She closes her eyes, swallowing hard.]
Not because of you.