Raw Need

"...You didn’t expect anything from me, didn’t want anything from me except to spend your time with me freely. Then we sat here for like an hour while we ate and you talked to me and tried to convince me that even though you were going to be going through a rough time, I didn’t need to be because my parents hadn’t betrayed me, and they were my parents and they loved me and all that stuff. And you know what I was thinking at that point? That I’d spent more time talking with you about the good things and the bad things in my life, and how to be a better person, and commiserating over the things that hurt me, than I had both of my parents put together. You were a better confidant, and mentor, and everything to me. And even though I was already disgusted with them, it was when you were trying to defend my relationship with them that I realized you were the family I would put above everything else.”

I could feel myself tearing up. I’d known some of it, I’d known that Amelia had been close