07.21.05 - 11:37 am

she sounded so sad.

how do i respond to this? there are only two means of diffusing this situation, or perceived situation:

a) i say goodbye, hang up the phone and set it down.
b) ask her whats wrong. comfort her. try to make her feel better. try to get closer. try to...get her back.

only one of these is appropriate. and its obviously choice a). while this is the choice he decided to go with, he still picked up his phone again hastily and hovered his fingers over the message menu on his phone. he almost text messaged her asking what was wrong, but realized what a mistake that would have been. shes not your girlfriend. its not your responsibility to comfort her. why would you? why do you always forget where you are, why you are here, and what shes done before? why is it so easy to forget, to ignore and gloss over?

you did good. somehow she knows you still care, but she also knows she did this, and this is what she wants.