Pretending to be fine after a small incident, and their partner/friend asks them what’s wrong, which flips the switch and they can’t stop crying. And eventually tell their partner/friend about it
THIS BUT ITS ABOUT RUBY AND THE TEA PARTY
OSCAR TRYING TO HIDE HOW BAD HE WAS WITHOUT HER AND HOW HE MISSED HER
“Ruby,” Oscar said. “I missed you.”
Ruby glanced softly at Oscar. “I missed-” she began to say only for the image of his bloodied corpse to flash in her mind. Unnerved, she quickly looked away from Oscar as she felt her heartbeat quicken.
“Ruby?” Oscar asked gingerly. “What’s wrong?”
“It’s nothing,” Ruby said as she tried to keep her voice from quivering. “Just still can’t believe I’m finally back all,”
“It’s more than that,” Oscar replied. “Ever since you came back, you’ve been looking at me weirdly. And I can tell that you didn’t tell us everything that happened in the Everafter. So, what happened exactly?
Ruby took a shaky break as she could feel the tears well up in her eyes. She didn’t want to tell Oscar the real reason why she’d been acting the way she had towards him. She hadn’t even told her teammates about what happened at Neo’s twisted tea party. All she wanted to do was to leave that memory behind her like it was a bad dream. But she also knew that keeping this to herself wasn’t going to do her any good as well. So, she explained it all to him. How she had snapped at her team for feeling ignored, how Neo had tormented her, and how the most horrific part of that whole experience was how she killed an illusion of him. By the time she had finished unraveling it all for him, she could just look down at the ground as tears fell from her face.
“I know it wasn’t the real you, but seeing you like that….” Ruby trailed off.
Oscar shook his head. “You don’t need to explain Ruby. Seeing me like that…it couldn’t have been easy.”
Ruby clenched her fist with her nails biting into her skin. “I just hate this. I want to be happy that I’m seeing you again, but that moment just keeps flashing before my eyes and I can’t help but worry that you’ll be…”
Oscar closed the gap between him and Ruby with him gingerly resting a hand on her shoulder. “I can’t say that everything is going to be fine because who knows what the future has in store for any of us. But if I do die, it won’t be because of you. It’ll probably be because of me trying to do something heroic and reckless.”
Despite the somberness of those words, Ruby couldn’t help but chuckle. “And when did you get so reckless?”
Oscar shrugged “I don’t know. I think I picked it up from a certain huntress who’s been a bad influence on me.”
Ruby raised an eyebrow with a smirk crossing her face. “Oh, so I’ve been a bad influence on you?”
“Actually, I was talking about Nora,”
Ruby scoffed and playfully slapped Oscar’s arm as the two began to laugh.