Lena had to take some time together her thoughts and think about how she wanted to tell Samuel everything. This was an event in her pat that she hadn't ever bothered talking with an outsider before because she never thought that it would be worth her time and she didn't want to the usual fake sympathy and empathy that came with telling strangers about a difficult event. She didn't need that kind of fake support, thus she always thought that it was better to keep it to just her family knowing since they were the ones who were affected by it.
Samuel was different though, he wasn't just some outsider, he was engaged to her already even though it wouldn't technically be official until after the actual engagement party. This was someone that she was committing to spending the rest or however long her life with it. It would be unfair to not let him know about it if he was genuinely intending to stay together with her for however long their time together would last.
