"But we didn't know it was about you," Nina said, though she was relieved that he wasn't ashamed of them. "Like, we just knew you talk about them all the time and that if you were talking to them, you'd end the conversation or the game if we wandered by. So, eventually, that just wound up with us going 'is it us?' because we couldn't think of what else it could be."
Because they both also had fairly terrible self-esteem when it came to things like that. And insecure paranoia was a sport all three of them participated in to an extent.
Tucking her phone away, she glanced at him sideways. "And I didn't know you'd be working the whole time you were away either. I thought it was, like, a visit. Not like when I tell Vette I'm gone for a job."
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"But we didn't know it was about you," Nina said, though she was relieved that he wasn't ashamed of them. "Like, we just knew you talk about them all the time and that if you were talking to them, you'd end the conversation or the game if we wandered by. So, eventually, that just wound up with us going 'is it us?' because we couldn't think of what else it could be."
Because they both also had fairly terrible self-esteem when it came to things like that. And insecure paranoia was a sport all three of them participated in to an extent.
Tucking her phone away, she glanced at him sideways. "And I didn't know you'd be working the whole time you were away either. I thought it was, like, a visit. Not like when I tell Vette I'm gone for a job."