"I do trust him. I've asked him to stay the night with me before and he has and it was fine. I felt safe with him. I don't think he would ever want or try to hurt me. But... some things are just... going to be painful. If I have enough warning, I can try and mitigate it some ahead of time, but... I was trying to give him a chance, I just asked him if we could go slow and give me time to get my head around things because this is new and it's weird and I don't know anything about what to do and he just... walked away..."

She absently tugs on a lock of her hair, a wordless expression of her frustration.

"I... I don't know. It's... probably better this way... for both of us..."