She'll help carry what she can, which is a fair amount for someone her size, but for a second she just looks at him. It's only after the start moving that she speaks up again.
"I don't know what I'm doing when it comes to stuff like this. I never even liked people until a few days before I came here, and now I've had to learn how to do that. How to show it."
Not just with Tommy, with everyone. Max is lucky in that he met Rey a few months in to her stay on the Barge when she'd picked up these skills a little more, but she knows she's still not good at these things. Passable, but good? She's a long way off.
"I learned quickly that what I think the people I care about want from me and what I think is the right thing to do aren't the same thing. My instinct is wait until they feel better and then see them, but that doesn't work. People like to be touched, they want you to be there for them. Don't- base what you do on what you think is right. Ask him what he wants. Or just make yourself touch him, hold him."
And then she stops talking because this feels very weird.
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Date: 2016-06-21 07:42 pm (UTC)"I don't know what I'm doing when it comes to stuff like this. I never even liked people until a few days before I came here, and now I've had to learn how to do that. How to show it."
Not just with Tommy, with everyone. Max is lucky in that he met Rey a few months in to her stay on the Barge when she'd picked up these skills a little more, but she knows she's still not good at these things. Passable, but good? She's a long way off.
"I learned quickly that what I think the people I care about want from me and what I think is the right thing to do aren't the same thing. My instinct is wait until they feel better and then see them, but that doesn't work. People like to be touched, they want you to be there for them. Don't- base what you do on what you think is right. Ask him what he wants. Or just make yourself touch him, hold him."
And then she stops talking because this feels very weird.