"God, please Cathy. Listen to me. I've never felt like this about anyone. The only person I could think about tonight was you. I was sure I was horrible and perverted and everything, but I... I... I..." Suki collapsed in a fit of weeping and Cathy rushed over to her, supporting her as she began to slide to the floor. She wailed into the American girl's shoulder as if all the fear and uncertainty in her life had come to a point with her fantasies about Cathy.
"Suki, I'll listen. Please stop crying. Please." Cathy's eyes began to get wet with her own tears as the Japanese girl wept into her shoulder
Suki finally got herself under control. Mumbling so that Cathy could barely hear her. "Cathy. I'm afraid I might be in love with you. I'm so afraid." Cathy looked down and saw a haunted look in the girl's eyes as her trembling thumb came up to find her teeth. Her tears were no longer in shame, embarrassment, or hurt, but from a fear so great, it was almost elemental. A part of her so deep that Suki was reacting instinctively, but her flight/fight system had her locked in uncertainty. Unable to move, the fear had nearly overcome her as she sat, huddled into herself. Staring at nothing. |