She still laughed.

Aw. Poor guy.

He gave up and laid on her a bit, sighing. He tried to ignore the laughs, her laughs triggered painful memories. His last memories of being laughed at as he had been beaten to literal death on the school play yard.

Yeup.

She stopped looking down on him and gently hugging him.

Shutting his eyes as tight as possible, he weakly hugged back.

And then the furry had delt with his brother dying due to his stupidity and then had to raise his little sister on his own with that same dead brother being a jerk always attached to him.

" did I do something wrong? I-Im sorry..."

Oop. That must've been bad.

He shook his head. "No. It's me. I'm just a mess." he said softly.

Very. Especially when the two had first learned about the situational link between the two. They never could get unstuck for weeks. Weeks!

" oh. Um..do you want to talk? "

Wow.

After one moment of pause, he nodded weakly.

Yeup. And Clair hadn't even been about a year old so he'd had to take care of a little baby fluff while having to deal with the shadow of his dead brother stuck to his back.

" okay. " She didn't really know how to start these types of conversation.

He wouldn't have shade if he apologized.

Nor did Shade.

But then, since he'd let Clair go, he'd have no more family. He'd have Akira of course but ... he'd watched his mother and father go, his brother be beaten away and now he'd let his little sister go. He actually didn't want to let his little brother go a second time.