Ethan
There are truths that aren't easy to say. Not because you want to hide them… but because saying them means opening up parts of yourself you'd rather keep closed. Places you're not proud of, decisions that weren't always the right ones… but that are part of who you are.
And if there's one thing I'm sure of right now… it's that I can't afford to hide anything.
Not with Clara, not if I want this to work.
I look at her, she's in front of me, silent. Waiting.
She doesn't pressure me... But she does not depart either. And that... It forces me to be completely honest.
I release the air slowly.
"I knew Vanessa long before I knew you."
I’ll start there. At the beginning, because there’s no way to understand this if you don’t say where it really began.
We move in the same circles…”
