“You’re right. I should have told you. I should have found a way to be able to talk to you. I was…really overwhelmed back then. And I know things aren’t going to get any easier here and now.”

A pause to get her own caramel milk tea going as well.

“I suppose on some level I felt like I couldn’t keep up and I wanted to give up trying. But I didn’t want you to feel like any of it was on you, because it wasn’t.”