Aly could feel her stomach twisting into a nervous knot as Rosa spoke, but she did her best to ignore it. She idly sipped at her tea while Rosa talked a little bit, thankful that it wasn’t still hot enough to burn her tongue. She didn’t expect the girl to understand where she was coming from in caring about Shane, too. Aly was well aware that Shane and Rosa weren’t friends, and she was also pretty aware how Shane seemed to feel about Rosa, so hearing that Rosa was pretty firmly on just the Xavier side of things wasn’t shocking. “I know… I really think it was just a.. a lack of communication thing, I guess? Shane should have said something sooner if he really was that unhappy… Maybe things wouldn’t have blown up the way that they did, they could have worked it out better and stopped there from even being a problem, but I just-” She paused to shake her head and then shrugged her shoulders heavily, slumping back in her chair with a frown. “I don’t know.. It’s really complicated. I just know that I’m worried about the both of them. Neither one of them seem to be handling it well, and with Shane’s track record lately, I’m just.. scared that he’s going to end up doing something stupid..”
Shaking her head again, she lifted her mug of tea to take another drink from it. She didn’t want to sit and just ramble about Shane when she knew that Rosa didn’t really care about him the way that she did. It wasn’t just Shane Aly was concerned with, she was concerned with Xavier, too, but for some reason -as usual- Aly was protective of Shane, she couldn’t seem to shake that. It bothered her a bit. At Rosa’s question about Fox, Aly’s eyes quickly flicked up from staring blankly down at the table and she smiled faintly. “I- guess, it’s kind of like that, yeah. I mean.. it’s a little different, because I’m actually with him. Usually I get the whole can’t eat, can’t sleep thing when I just want someone…” She winced, thinking about recent past, then shook her head to brush it off.
Taking a few seconds to collect her thoughts, a small smile managed to work its way onto her face before she spoke again. “It’s kind of funny, because.. when I first came here, it was so different. New York is vastly different from Barryton, Michigan, it’s ridiculous. But I came here to get into writing, and I went to school, I got a job, I made friends. I mean, there was Shane, and Scarlett, and whoever else, and they were great, they were. And I had my home, living in a dorm on campus, I made everything work for me. I tolerated it all. Don’t get me wrong, I love this city, all the energy and opportunity and the people, but..it- it never really felt like home to me. Maybe it never really will because of the huge difference, but when I’m with Fox..” Aly paused, her smile growing a little bit as she sighed lightly, “He- he makes me feel.. safe, and warm, and wanted. Happy, he makes me really happy. And being with him, the two of us being together, living together, just spending time with one another.” She paused to nod once. “That feels like home.” Aly realized she was rambling and abruptly cleared her throat, sitting up straighter as she chewed at her lip for a second. “But Rosa, you deserve something like that, too. You’re an amazing person, so sweet and so caring. We’re a lot alike, when you think about it. Those guys of the horror stories of your love life, they didn’t deserve you. Because anyone who truly deserves you would see how amazing you are and they wouldn’t quit. You’re not someone who’s easy to give up on.” She said, giving a small, reassuring smile.
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