( A little snort, and then a wince before his nose is not the happiest thing in the worlds. )
I m-miss her.
( Marissa. She was never exactly super close to him, she was Max's and Max was first priority, the way she should be. More people needed to care about her in the way that Marissa does; it might even be more helpful and important to her than the way he cares about her, because that is so skewed and so complicated. His smile becomes a little more like an actual smile, even if it's a little obscured by the way he's holding ice to his nose. )
Are you-- d-doing okay?
( Just quietly, without it being a demand or pushy in the way his questions sometimes are. After the other day, after everything that unfolds here. He knows it's a complicated question for her, anything that demands her thinking about how she is and what she's feeling and then talking about it is always so difficult, but he can't not ask, can't leave it. The offer needs to be extended. )
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I m-miss her.
( Marissa. She was never exactly super close to him, she was Max's and Max was first priority, the way she should be. More people needed to care about her in the way that Marissa does; it might even be more helpful and important to her than the way he cares about her, because that is so skewed and so complicated. His smile becomes a little more like an actual smile, even if it's a little obscured by the way he's holding ice to his nose. )
Are you-- d-doing okay?
( Just quietly, without it being a demand or pushy in the way his questions sometimes are. After the other day, after everything that unfolds here. He knows it's a complicated question for her, anything that demands her thinking about how she is and what she's feeling and then talking about it is always so difficult, but he can't not ask, can't leave it. The offer needs to be extended. )