[ It takes a long while for her to respond. She's still on the call — the app is still connected and her wet breaths and sniffs and gasps come through occasionally. Even though the tears are still coming, the flood of emotions that had come with them have already gone dry and she feels wrung out and exhausted. To her immense frustration, guilt pools into her stomach as well, as if she should feel at all bad for letting any of that come pouring out of her, especially not in the face of a creep harassing her like this.
She should just hang up and try to calm down before anyone comes home and sees her like this. Before anyone else realizes that Hoshino Ai cries when she's by herself more days than she doesn't.
But for some reason, she stays on the call. She doesn't stop talking. ]
Nobody's ever sorry. [ She chokes on the words again. ] Do you know what he said to me? "Does that hurt, you bitch?" You're telling me that's how things were supposed to go?
[ She's always known that Hoshino Ai being here at all was a mistake. Since she was a child, she's known there was no place in the world for a person like her to belong. But she had created one, a place where she could try and exist without anyone else's permission.
Having someone try to correct that mistake at all is one thing. Someone telling her they should have done it is another altogether. ]
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She should just hang up and try to calm down before anyone comes home and sees her like this. Before anyone else realizes that Hoshino Ai cries when she's by herself more days than she doesn't.
But for some reason, she stays on the call. She doesn't stop talking. ]
Nobody's ever sorry. [ She chokes on the words again. ] Do you know what he said to me? "Does that hurt, you bitch?" You're telling me that's how things were supposed to go?
[ She's always known that Hoshino Ai being here at all was a mistake. Since she was a child, she's known there was no place in the world for a person like her to belong. But she had created one, a place where she could try and exist without anyone else's permission.
Having someone try to correct that mistake at all is one thing. Someone telling her they should have done it is another altogether. ]