Sweets And Sugar Help Heal A Broken Encounter

"It happened right before I got here, yeah. It's still pretty fresh to me." After that though, he stopped focusing on himself so that he could hear what Shay had to say. The way that she started off sounded like something out of a horror movie. Blood everywhere and lost parents. There was an itch to just hold Shay, but he needed to understand that she was strong too. He felt her hands on him though, and that seemed to soothe something inside of him. Maybe it was just because he knew that he didn't have the worse of the worse for a backstory.

"I'm sorry to hear that Eroshay." His whole body shook when she went down his spine; it was a rather weird sensation that was taking his mind off of things. "I know it will, and it is. It's just still fresh, yeah? So bringing it up is the only time when I wish that-" What did he really want? "That I had jumped off too."

Even with her, Auden still felt like he was back at square one. There was no happiness in his voice, no step in his movements. As of now, he was living because he left like he had to. His parents, his sister; they were all proof of what the other options was. Auden wouldn't have it, not yet. The feeling of her made him shiver, unknowingly longing to be close to her, to have what she had. What a fortunate girl she was, even through the heartache that she must have already faced. Eroshay was undoubtedly the strongest person he knew. "It's fine." That seemed to be the sweetest thing that he could make out. His body relaxed as he placed his hands on her arms, as if to make sure that she didn't let go. "This is nice, at least."