He said it quickly, feeling a nervous flutter in his stomach. Nervous-worried or nervous-excited...it was hard to discern between the two then and there. The nod was after-the-fact, as was the small smile, but connected all the same. It was hard to smile; he could see himself lashing out at the man, incoherent and lost. I was terrible to so many people.
"I had..." How to put it? He'd tried different things in his head so many times lately, but putting things out into the world proved to be harder than just imagination. "I'd wanted to try and...explain. Maybe. Or...simply apologize." He felt his face warming up. "Though...I'd apologized so much before without knowing what it really meant..."
things to be SMITTEN
He said it quickly, feeling a nervous flutter in his stomach. Nervous-worried or nervous-excited...it was hard to discern between the two then and there. The nod was after-the-fact, as was the small smile, but connected all the same. It was hard to smile; he could see himself lashing out at the man, incoherent and lost. I was terrible to so many people.
"I had..." How to put it? He'd tried different things in his head so many times lately, but putting things out into the world proved to be harder than just imagination. "I'd wanted to try and...explain. Maybe. Or...simply apologize." He felt his face warming up. "Though...I'd apologized so much before without knowing what it really meant..."