fatin never thought she needed "a person", hence the no strings attached hook ups and the "i dont get tight w girls" line.
leah only ever wanted a person (she thought it was gonna be j*ff (i refuse to say his name bc i dont want it to be in my predictive text) but that didn't turn out well).
fatin never realized she needed one until she met/got to know leah, and leah never knew what a healthy relationship was like until she met fatin.
and i feel like fatin has this "why be close w people if there's a huge chance that they'll leave u broken in the end? why go through all that trauma and stress and drama and heartache when you can just...not?" mentality, so she keeps herself occupied with the cello (most of the time against her own will) and parties and hookups just so that she can distract herself from the fact that she's lonely. and she fooled herself enough to convince herself that she isn't.
that is, until the island. the unsinkable 8 made her realize how having attachments to people isn't so bad. not every friendship or relationship will end in pain and heartbreak and loss (i mean, there's death but that's a given).
being IN love, though? that's what leah taught her.
but she doesn't know that yet.











