I...hooked up with this guy. Rob. I thought he liked me, you know? And I was still pretty... pretty messed up as far as anything physical went.
[she looks down for the first time, focusing on her hands] But we started doing a lot of drugs. It took the edge off, but it meant that half the time I didn't even realize when he...
[she trails off, leaving that alone. She doesn't need to finish the sentence] Anyway. We ran out of food. And money. It's not like we had jobs. And then Rob got...[her eyes close, just briefly] he got the brilliant idea of... [she hadn't expected it to be so hard to say to Archie. But this...this is worse than admitting what happened when she was a kid. All her stupid decisions laid out in front of someone who had truly become family. The real kind of family.
She didn't want to see the reaction in his eyes to this] ...selling. Me. For a little cash.
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[she looks down for the first time, focusing on her hands] But we started doing a lot of drugs. It took the edge off, but it meant that half the time I didn't even realize when he...
[she trails off, leaving that alone. She doesn't need to finish the sentence] Anyway. We ran out of food. And money. It's not like we had jobs. And then Rob got...[her eyes close, just briefly] he got the brilliant idea of... [she hadn't expected it to be so hard to say to Archie. But this...this is worse than admitting what happened when she was a kid. All her stupid decisions laid out in front of someone who had truly become family. The real kind of family.
She didn't want to see the reaction in his eyes to this] ...selling. Me. For a little cash.