[ No need to thank me. But there is. Most people, in Maddy's experience, talk a lot about caring about other people, but there's saying it and doing it.
Right now, reaching out with advice to help a frightened girl is about the only thing anyone can do, if it's really true and there's a storm coming.
There's a few seconds of silence. ]
I'm not gonna to die. I'll be fine.
[ It's said with a lot of teenage bravado; you can hear the mean girl sneer, the eye-roll. Maybe you can even hear the teenage hair flip.
Now that she's starting to pull herself back together, Maddy can appreciate how badly it comes off to be crying and sniffling into a walkie.
But under the bravado, Maddy isn't sure at all. She's terrified. Her stomach hurts. She doesn't know if she's ever going to see her parents or her friends or anyone else ever again.
But there's nothing anyone can do about that right now. ]
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Right now, reaching out with advice to help a frightened girl is about the only thing anyone can do, if it's really true and there's a storm coming.
There's a few seconds of silence. ]
I'm not gonna to die. I'll be fine.
[ It's said with a lot of teenage bravado; you can hear the mean girl sneer, the eye-roll. Maybe you can even hear the teenage hair flip.
Now that she's starting to pull herself back together, Maddy can appreciate how badly it comes off to be crying and sniffling into a walkie.
But under the bravado, Maddy isn't sure at all. She's terrified. Her stomach hurts. She doesn't know if she's ever going to see her parents or her friends or anyone else ever again.
But there's nothing anyone can do about that right now. ]