[ meanwhile, belle hopes she forgets about it. there are people who she's revealed the secrets of storybrooke to (and, along with it, the fact that she is technically - supposedly - a storybook character), but it's not something she intends to mention casually. ]

It's not as though I could blame him as such; not after my mother died. And with my sisters married off in fairly quick succession - [ she shrugs. ] It wasn't all bad.