Clarisse could have just let it go, and it would have been fine. It's probably stupid to feel a little choked up about it when she goes back over it to explain. Hell if she can figure out why- no, that's a lie. She just doesn't want to look too closely at why.

"I'm sorry too," Ellie says. It's a more complicated one, but it needs to be said. "I was thinking about what I needed, back when that happened to me, instead of thinking about what you needed. Right here and now."

Good intentions, shitty execution.