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Three

I try again, though to be fair I didn't phone her first. I wracked my mind for someone who would be able to handle how I felt, yet found no one in my memory. There are people who would have, but the could was lacking. Broken and shattered is not what I will do to my friends and very few could have handled how I was.

The second call went as badly as the first, the remains of my computer chair are testament to that. I was already out my door and on my way to her house to strangle her with my bare hands before I stopped myself. I turned around and had trouble with my door my hands were shaking so much.

The third granted me what I needed. It is the peak of how much this whole situation had hurt me, managing to tear through the progress I had made and more than once I fell into fits of spasms under the torment of it. Luckily, spasming so hard I start to bleed is a thing of the distant past, and I am thankful.

What I needed was full understanding, and I have it now. The tiny little piece of fundamental incompatability is revealed, and the thing that is us is finally seen. She hurts. I now understand why she couldn't eat that day, what I had been missing. I hurt, pages upon pages have already been written about that. Neither is fair, but both are true.

Now, I'm going to try and sleep. I find it terribly amusing that in the same 24 hours I will have had homicidal urges towards someone that I will cordially watch a film with.

All my habits told me to keep this to myself, but what's a story without an end? Even one as badly written as this one.

Comments

Sometimes even when your friends can't help you from the downward spiral, they would prefer to fall with you than without you. Next time, when you need to talk to someone, even if you think they don't deserve it, know that you have far too many options of friends willing to risk it all for you. I know this isn't what you yearn for, but it's what I've got.

actually, you know, tyler put that rather well.

i can't show up to kmm tonight. unless you don't mind if i drop by on my way home a little after midnight.

Grah, it has nothing to do with _deserve_. It has everything to do with able. I get scary when I'm really upset, and if my choices lay between

1) Be really upset and then get over it enough to interact with people without hurting them badly.
2) Be really upset and emotionally scar my friend who I dragged into it.

I will always pick (1). Trust me, if I think you can be of help and I believe you are willing, I _will_ call you. Notice how I have many times. But sometimes, you can't.

Difficulties of knowing overtly honest people, I suppose.

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