“Life changes, hearts break, people move on. It’s just the way things are.” 

The young girl curled up besides the older one, resting her head on Hope’s shoulder as she tried to sound comforting. She wasn’t sure that she was really the person that Hope wanted to be hearing this from, seeing as it was her brother who had dumped her, and she was 16 and clueless to boot but… well the older girl looked sad, and Hope couldn’t handle having someone that she care about look sad.

Because she did care about Hope, and not just in a “you were my brother’s girlfriend” sort of way. They might not have known each other all that long, but she had grown to trust Hope. She wouldn’t really admit it, especially now after the whole Silas thing when it might seem a little awkward, but she sort of looked up to the other girl in the way one would look up to an older sister. 

And she didn’t want her to be hurt, in anyway.

"I don’t know why that has to be the way things are. I don’t know why we can’t just… have one person out there for us, and find that person, and everything will always be alright as soon as we find that person. I don’t know why we have to have rules saying someone’s too old for us, or too young for us. And I don’t know why people have to fall for someone only to have to feel like it’s all falling apart but…" she bit her lip and shrugged her shoulders a little, "It is the way that is is…. and it well, it sorta seems like… as bad as it gets, there is something that makes it better? I don’t know what that something is, maybe its different for everyone or maybe it doesn’t exist but….."