Big Salmon Lake Endless phone calls and dreaming about you

She was tired of keeping it in.  She needed to talk about it but refused to bring it up, a situation that had led her to fester over the previous weeks.  Eljay's quiet question opened the gates to all of it.

Bronco left.  He said he was just going to look for his mom, but it'd been too long.  I thought he wasn't coming back.  There.  She'd said it.  No one cared.  All mom wants to talk about is Reyes, how she had to kick him out, how glad she is to be rid of him.  How the fuck am I supposed to deal with that?!  How doesn't she get it!?

It's so fucking stupid, I know she can't do anything.  But would it kill her to pretend she cares a little about what I'm fucking feeling?  Maybe.  It wasn't like she'd been forthcoming.  But it felt like, lately, anytime she'd gone to her mom the conversation had been about her, her problems, what Fennec could do for her.  And she just had... zero space left.  She couldn't.

And then Bronco just showed up again, out of nowhere. And he's different, and everything is different, and I have no clue what to do about any of it. Fuck, everything was a lot. And no way Eljay was going to have the answers either, but just saying it helped. Maybe she didn't feel good, but she didn't feel nearly as murdery as she had.

holy heck it's been so long I forgot my own threadlog timeline LOL. Edited to fix