[ ... oh. Talking to his friends about his problems, receiving comfort on such a simple physical level... It's been a while since he's had that. Daybreak is always full of hurt and confused students trying to tend to each other's wounds, but everyone is always hurting and it's hard to really make it less. Hard to come by a simple hug and just... compassion.
He hesitates for a moment, then wraps his arms around Nadia in turn. He'd been lonely. Way too lonely. Even now that he's made a good amount of new friends, none of them can really replace the old friends he used to have and who used to mean the world to him. Now he has one of them back, just one, and it's overwhelming. James closes his eyes and breathes out slowly, relaxing his body. ]
I missed you.
[ And that is one truth that is simple and should have been spoken much sooner instead of gotten obscured by all the complicated half-truths around it. ]
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He hesitates for a moment, then wraps his arms around Nadia in turn. He'd been lonely. Way too lonely. Even now that he's made a good amount of new friends, none of them can really replace the old friends he used to have and who used to mean the world to him. Now he has one of them back, just one, and it's overwhelming. James closes his eyes and breathes out slowly, relaxing his body. ]
I missed you.
[ And that is one truth that is simple and should have been spoken much sooner instead of gotten obscured by all the complicated half-truths around it. ]