"Well… good."
Note that she's using past tense.
Yeah usually when a person brings up something like this without prompt, it means they want you to know they actually are.
"Have… other people suggested that?" asks Emmie.
"Yeah, a couple-a times," says Amie, frowning.
"Oh."
"My tenth-grade school councillor thought she was really clever."
"I see."
"Yeah, well. I was dealing with some stuff then, OK?" says Amie, hunching her shoulders ."My parents were doing the whole 'our marriage is over but we're in denial about it' two-step and stuff - but that doesn't mean I did it on purpose. It was an accident."
"Right," says Emmie.
"It's just… like after, just for a moment I thought like, if I had fallen just a bit to the right -"
"- well, then… I dunno, I'd have been the girl who got impaled on the tree."
Note that she's using past tense.
Yeah usually when a person brings up something like this without prompt, it means they want you to know they actually are.
"Have… other people suggested that?" asks Emmie.
"Yeah, a couple-a times," says Amie, frowning.
"Oh."
"My tenth-grade school councillor thought she was really clever."
"I see."
"Yeah, well. I was dealing with some stuff then, OK?" says Amie, hunching her shoulders ."My parents were doing the whole 'our marriage is over but we're in denial about it' two-step and stuff - but that doesn't mean I did it on purpose. It was an accident."
"Right," says Emmie.
"It's just… like after, just for a moment I thought like, if I had fallen just a bit to the right -"
"- well, then… I dunno, I'd have been the girl who got impaled on the tree."