[Pass?? Did he really just say pass??? Yes, he'd better be glad he wasn't in reach right now. The plastic of Ran's phone case snap-crackles dangerously with the pressure of her fingers.]
It was about me, then, or you wouldn't be so evasive.
[Really, though, Ran, the wording was "I'm lying to my best friend. She keeps asking when I can see her again, and I tell her I'm busy. But the truth is that I'm always by her side." Who else could it have been about?]
[. . . Probably she was hoping it wasn't true. Even though the secrets had been dragged from them by the app, to accept that it was true meant accepting the hurt that came with it.]
You are lying, then. About your case at home. That's how you show up those times so conveniently. Isn't it?
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It was about me, then, or you wouldn't be so evasive.
[Really, though, Ran, the wording was "I'm lying to my best friend. She keeps asking when I can see her again, and I tell her I'm busy. But the truth is that I'm always by her side." Who else could it have been about?]
[. . . Probably she was hoping it wasn't true. Even though the secrets had been dragged from them by the app, to accept that it was true meant accepting the hurt that came with it.]
You are lying, then. About your case at home. That's how you show up those times so conveniently. Isn't it?
So . . . you are close. You are nearby.