Lyra
Amazing how life turns out
The way that it does
The way that it does
Her embrace is initially met with resistance, and Lyra keeps her hold loose enough that Jude can control the situation. If he prefers, she can quickly and easily move away - but he doesn't shove out of her grip or stay frozen, immobilized by a freeze response that she has learned to feel in her children. Instead, he slowly, slowly melts into her embrace, and she stays silent all the while, allowing him the space to process this in whatever way he needs.
And when Jude speaks, it is almost painful to listen to - not because she doesn't want to hear, but because her heart hurts for the pain that he's been carrying, all without someone to hold him and tell him that it's okay that he's not okay. He doesn't have to be okay. His father is dead. His moms, it sounds like, aren't in the picture. And maybe he has friends, or maybe he doesn't, but either way, he doesn't seem to have anyone to talk to.
Maybe Lyra can be that person.
"I think there might be a lot to say," she tells him softly, her cheek still pressed gently upon the top of his head. "But only if and when you're ready to talk." She doesn't want to press him, to force him into opening up. But if she can offer a shoulder to cry on? She may not be able to fix things for him, but this, at least, she can do.
And when Jude speaks, it is almost painful to listen to - not because she doesn't want to hear, but because her heart hurts for the pain that he's been carrying, all without someone to hold him and tell him that it's okay that he's not okay. He doesn't have to be okay. His father is dead. His moms, it sounds like, aren't in the picture. And maybe he has friends, or maybe he doesn't, but either way, he doesn't seem to have anyone to talk to.
Maybe Lyra can be that person.
"I think there might be a lot to say," she tells him softly, her cheek still pressed gently upon the top of his head. "But only if and when you're ready to talk." She doesn't want to press him, to force him into opening up. But if she can offer a shoulder to cry on? She may not be able to fix things for him, but this, at least, she can do.
We end up hurting the worst
The only ones we really love
The only ones we really love
