'Maybe I am a useless jerk. So what? That does not give people a proper reason to treat me like cheap dirt.'
'Okay, okay, maybe it does.'
'Yeah, it definitely does. But that's not the point here. The point is listening to what Madeline has to say and reacting to it like a normal… person would.'
"So," Madeline began.
"Are you there?" She asked, checking in to see if Emilio wasn't in some food coma or had fallen asleep out of boredom.
"Mhm, I am," Emilio responded in the nick of time, managing to surprise Madeline.
'Wow, I didn't expect him to answer."
Madeline felt it was incredibly random.
Why would she pour out all her feelings or everything she had pent up to someone like Emilio who she had barely known?
There was Briar.
There was Xavier, even.
Indiana too.
But it was Emilio who she wanted to spill it to.
It was nice, Madeline had to admit, having a fatherly figure in her life.
