Abby can't help wincing. Without realising it, she's scooped her braid back over her shoulder again to tug at it, fucking with the loose ends as she mulls a couple words over.

"She really cares about what you think. I accused her of hiding some shit from me because she was trying to trick me into trusting her." Saying it out loud is embarrassing, especially when it's so obvious Ellie wasn't trying to do that, but at the time that's what it felt like. "She didn't want that to happen with you. And it's kind of a hard thing to bring up when you know what it sounds like."

Eugh... is she really going to sit here and stick up for Ellie? This sucks. She sighs heavily. "We fucked that up, obviously, but I don't know how we couldn't have."