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"You don’t get to do this, Ada up--"

"Bullshit!" she said, standing up so fast the chair behind her scraped across the floor "This is bullshit--" Her fist pounded on the table "After what I did for you--" Her voice cut off again in a strangled sob

I sat, fighting the e myself to cal, too

"Sit down," I said quietly

She folded her arazes ht right out of me I pulled my eyes away, leaned forward, put my head in my hand

"Did you just hear yourself?" I said,with emotion "After what you did--you think you did it for me, for your mom, for your friends Because somewhere inside of you, you can’t let yourself believe are worth putting yourself first for your own sake"

Emilia turned for a moment, her back toit back to the table so she could sit down, she pushed it over It clattered across the stone floor and she had her face in her hands

"This fucking sucks!" she said, and then, with a kick that e to her than the chair had she connected with et to live--hooray!" She threw her arms up in a mock cheer but her eyes and cheeks were drenched with tears "But I don’t have you And I don’t have a baby"

"Emilia--"

"No, you don’t understand"

I sed "You’re right I don’t"

Our eyes locked and the minutes stretched out into what felt like an eternity when I couldn’t breathe "You need help I can’t help you And you are incapable of asking for help Therefore, this situation is i so perfect in there?" She pointed at my head

"No, it’s pretty fucked up in here, too"

Then she really started to sob, so ht She doubled over as if in physical agony and see to lose her balance and fall over