As Arissa had requested, Jocelyn let her free her chest by letting her pain go alongside her tears.
Adele did not interrupt. She sat down patiently and waited. She hardly sees Arissa break down this way and it startled her how much have changed since she fell unconscious. The room fell silent with Arissa’s sobs as the only sound in it.
Arissa sniffed occasionally. However, she was embarrassed to be crying this way, but she could not stop her tears. Sohow, it healed her anguish.
"That’s enough, no more tears," Jocelyn finally spoke up when the tears started to get out of hand for soone like her friend.
It would be okay for soone else to cry this way but not her friend. She knows the Arissa she beca friends with, that Arissa is and would forever be a strong woman who doesn’t back down and does not let her ’I’m okay’ mask fall.
"I am not a good wife and I will never beco one," Arissa said from Jocelyn’s shoulder with more tears, "I hate this feeling but I can’t help it. Lyn, I feel like I am dying,"
Jocelyn raised her face to the ceiling to stop her won tears from pouring. She have never seen her best friend this helpless and it tore her badly.
She felt like the guilty one here. She had always tried to get them closer and never thought if it would hurt her friend later on. She felt like a bad friend for not considering her friend’s future happiness and only thought about the present.
If she haven’t put in so much effort, Arissa would not be feeling this miserable right now.
Jocelyn pulled Arissa’s face from her shoulder and stared into her eyes. "I’m sorry," Jocelyn murmured and pulled Arissa into another hug.
Arissa’s eyes t with her sister’s patient yet confused ones when they hugged again. Gazing into Adele’s eyes, she sniffed and mouthed the words, ’Forgive ,’
Jocelyn pulled away from the hug again and this ti, she held Arissa’s face with both of her palms and forced her friend to look into her eyes, eyeballs to eyeballs.
"Listen to ," she began and Arissa nodded readily, "You’re a good human, I knew that from the first mont I saw you. I’m not saying this because you are my friend, I’m just giving you honest truths. I love you and I want you to know so many people out there do."
She sniffed with a smile and tucked a strand of Arissa’s hair behind her ear, "You are also a good wife. You may not know this now but you are. Accept it or not, you’re special and Nicklaus sees you for that which is what you should know_"
Arissa cut her off, "But I_"
"Arissa, let her talk," Adele interrupted her sister with a firm voice. The one she uses when offended and Arissa gulped at the sound of it.
Jocelyn turned to Adele and her eyes widened. She had been so imrsed in comforting Arissa that she forgot Adele’s presence.
Now, what would they do?
Jocelyn froze up and when she did, Adele decided to take the floor since the cat got Jocelyn’s tongue, "You married him for money, did you not?" she asked, her voice sharp.
Arissa blinked hurt. She did marry Nicklaus for money but not for her interest. Adele made it sound like she married Nicklaus for selfish reasons.
She dogged Adele’s gaze, "I never ant lying to you this way. I wanted you to get better first before disclosing all of these to you,"
Adele gave Arissa a long look and even after searching Arissa’s expression, she did not say a word but only stared blankly at Arissa.
"Adele, I’m sorry," Arissa imdiately apologized when Adele stared at her with no words. To her, Adele’s silence was worst than death itself.
Jocelyn gripped her friend’s hand supportively for her to calm down and explain things to Adele. She felt the emotions coming out of Arissa and those emotions won’t let her flow well with her words and that would worsen the issue at hand.
Adele turned to Jocelyn and also fixed a strong gaze on her, "Tell you don’t know about this,"
Even to Adele, her words sounded ridiculous but she hoped they were true. She could not imagine, Jocelyn also did not let her know about this.
And when Jocelyn did not answer but stared at the floor, she sprung up from her seat, hurt. "You did not only lie to , Arissa!" she half yelled, unable to control her growing emotions.
"Arissa tried_"
"Don’t let get harsh on you, Jocelyn," Adele snapped when Jocelyn tried defending Arissa. "I asked you a question and you never replied. Now isn’t the right ti for you to talk."
Jocelyn nodded with a gulp and Adele faced Arissa. "You pulled up an act before . You acted like you both were alright together and he dots on you. Tell , did he force you into acting before ?"
Arissa defended Nicklaus in the blink of an eye, "He never did and we never pulled up an act before you. I’m the faulty one between us, he deserves soone better, soone, who I can never beco," she said in tears.
"I let my emotions crowd whenever I’m with him. I don’t give him a listening ear, he’s always there for but I’m never there for him. He is trying at his end to endure , I’m the whole package of a ssed up wife and a selfish person," she said breathlessly and ended up choking on her tears
Adele’s emotions weakened hearing her sister, and Arissa’s tears did not stop. She stretched her hand to her sister and slowly walked closer to her, "That’s enough tears." she advised in a pleading tone.
Arissa’s tears poured more painfully, "I wish I could be enough for him. I wish I can beco more of a help than a headache to him,"
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