What he says hurts in more ways than one: he's a friend, most importantly. She cares about him, and it's sad that feels this way about himself, but those exact things could have come from her mouth and rung just as true. I fuck everything up. I get people killed. People stop trusting me.
She looks at the dog running down seagulls, his ears flapping madly in the wind.
Why wouldn't I think I was going to fuck it up?
You're a piece of shit, Abby. You always have been.
"I get it."
She really does, is the thing. More than he knows. "But other people pick up on stuff like that. Sometimes it can get really obvious. If you think it's going to happen that much, you could end up... engineering it." If that makes sense. Abby's pushed enough people away with her bullshit, she should know. "You owe yourself a better shot at it than that. This is important to you. Don't sabotage it now."
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What he says hurts in more ways than one: he's a friend, most importantly. She cares about him, and it's sad that feels this way about himself, but those exact things could have come from her mouth and rung just as true. I fuck everything up. I get people killed. People stop trusting me.
She looks at the dog running down seagulls, his ears flapping madly in the wind.
Why wouldn't I think I was going to fuck it up?
You're a piece of shit, Abby. You always have been.
"I get it."
She really does, is the thing. More than he knows. "But other people pick up on stuff like that. Sometimes it can get really obvious. If you think it's going to happen that much, you could end up... engineering it." If that makes sense. Abby's pushed enough people away with her bullshit, she should know. "You owe yourself a better shot at it than that. This is important to you. Don't sabotage it now."