[Chris ... Stops, as if he hadn't expected to be asked a question in such a calm tone. His expression shifts from disgust to irritation and then settling on confusion.
"I-" It takes a lot of mental work to get the words to come out, relying on the anger had been much easier than using words like an adult. "... It was four years. How do you just fall out of love like that?"
And, of course, that wasn't how it happened. Boxer and Nariko's relationship has spanned closer to a full year if not utterly exceeded it, so a lot of this is based on assumptions: That Nariko wouldn't actually move on, that she would sit around and wait for him no matter what happened. There were situations that explained his line of thinking, but none of them justified the behavior.
The woman in question has at least stopped trying to crawl up Boxer's side, she's just listening]
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"I-" It takes a lot of mental work to get the words to come out, relying on the anger had been much easier than using words like an adult. "... It was four years. How do you just fall out of love like that?"
And, of course, that wasn't how it happened. Boxer and Nariko's relationship has spanned closer to a full year if not utterly exceeded it, so a lot of this is based on assumptions: That Nariko wouldn't actually move on, that she would sit around and wait for him no matter what happened. There were situations that explained his line of thinking, but none of them justified the behavior.
The woman in question has at least stopped trying to crawl up Boxer's side, she's just listening]