"We all have our strengths and weaknesses, but we shouldn't spend a lifetime trying to correct a weakness. I don't need you to be more than what you already are, unless it is your calling to be more. You've already given us everything I'd ever need. Everything else is a bonus."
Yor was honestly speechless. How...just how was this man able to push past all of her insecurities - all the doubts buzzing in her head, the voices of those around her telling her that she wasn't good enough, that everything she did would result in failure, that she shouldn't even try anymore because there were other people that were better and more fit for the role she played - and reach her in a way that no one else could? Where even her self-assurances couldn't get to?
A shadow of a voice whispered that this was all for the act, that he was only saying these things because it would help her stay, that she shouldn't fall for it again... But she couldn't help herself. Gosh, she wanted it to be real. Wanted him to actually mean those words. For once put the act aside and just...
Just... what?
What did she want?
To be enough.
"You've already given us everything I'd ever need..." The words echo in her head repeatedly, chasing away the negative storm that had haunted her for days. Her ruby eyes glistened, stinging with tears. She desperately tried to blink them away, scrub them from her cheeks...but they kept falling, teardrops in an unrelenting track down her face. Her throat closed up, unable to utter any word, even if she could think of something to say. Eventually, she just covered her face, trying to hide the tears, ashamed that she couldn't just keep it together while he told her exactly what she wanted to hear. That what she did matter. That she was appreciated. That she didn't have to be anything more...because she was enough.
