[ She feels a hard, miserable twist. Clearly a no, then. She doesn't know what she was expecting. It's just that...Mitchell made her feel safe. That was the thing. He saw her at her most wretched, and gave her a space to be safe. Standing in the place where he'd stood, she'd thought, might let her feel a little bit of that again. Like there was someone watching her back. Someone who understood her and would support her even through her worst.
Having that stamped down...She's been keeping busy to keep from feeling Mitchell's loss too keenly. But this pulls him further away. She makes a little noise that sounds a little bit too much like a sound of physical pain. Immediately, she tries to cover it with a brash, casual, confident backtracking from that raw emotional truth: ]
I can't really eat my ambitions. Or put them into savings. I need to earn a living. And I know I'll earn good tips.
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Having that stamped down...She's been keeping busy to keep from feeling Mitchell's loss too keenly. But this pulls him further away. She makes a little noise that sounds a little bit too much like a sound of physical pain. Immediately, she tries to cover it with a brash, casual, confident backtracking from that raw emotional truth: ]
I can't really eat my ambitions. Or put them into savings. I need to earn a living. And I know I'll earn good tips.