The air between them felt slightly heavier now, but not in a bad way.
It was more like the weight of something important, something that had been waiting to be said for a long time.
Hugo could feel it in the way Loli's fingers slightly tensed in his hand, the way her gaze flickered between his eyes and the ice beneath their feet.
He had been thinking about this for a while now, ever since she accidentally let slip that she had been in therapy.
It wasn't something casual, not something people just mentioned without weight behind it. Hugo knew that much.
And while he didn't want to push her, didn't want to make her relive something painful, he also knew that if she had trusted him enough to let that piece of information slip, then maybe—just maybe—she wanted to tell him.
Maybe she just didn't know how?
It certainly wasn't that he was being nosy! It wasn't that at all!
