[That... really wasn't the best way to hear that whole thing, no. And it's worse because Jeremy is also saying a bunch of other things that she wants to argue against, but everything gets muddled and hard to focus on when he talks that fast.
The SQUIP that's maybe not really there tries to take advantage of her confusion, and for a moment, she just smiles at him dazedly before she can shake her head stubbornly.]
If you mean Mephisto and Stephen, I already talked to them. That's why they were so angry with me at the party. Well, that and I acted like my SQUIP had gotten me. It still might have? E-Everything's confusing right now.
[She exhales slowly and takes a step forward, then another and another. Carefully, as if anticipating Jeremy trying to recoil away from her, she tries to take his hands.]
The only thing I'm not confused about is that you don't deserve what you're doing to yourself. And that... I want to be with you. I love you too. And we can try being together in whatever sense you're comfortable with, just as friends or as more or whatever.
Just, just don't keep pushing me away? I'm not worried about good and bad. I'm worried about us trying, and learning. [She squeezes his hands with a small smile.] Like you told Riley, right? You don't get to decide who my favourite person is.
no subject
The SQUIP that's maybe not really there tries to take advantage of her confusion, and for a moment, she just smiles at him dazedly before she can shake her head stubbornly.]
If you mean Mephisto and Stephen, I already talked to them. That's why they were so angry with me at the party. Well, that and I acted like my SQUIP had gotten me. It still might have? E-Everything's confusing right now.
[She exhales slowly and takes a step forward, then another and another. Carefully, as if anticipating Jeremy trying to recoil away from her, she tries to take his hands.]
The only thing I'm not confused about is that you don't deserve what you're doing to yourself. And that... I want to be with you. I love you too. And we can try being together in whatever sense you're comfortable with, just as friends or as more or whatever.
Just, just don't keep pushing me away? I'm not worried about good and bad. I'm worried about us trying, and learning. [She squeezes his hands with a small smile.] Like you told Riley, right? You don't get to decide who my favourite person is.