[ And that? Puts her fraying temper into overdrive. ]

You skipped the part where I sit here and try my best to do something, anything, to help you maybe feel less awful, only to have everything I say be taken the worst possible way and have words put in my mouth about being pissed at you and wanting someone stronger and that I'm pretending to care about you and wasting your time. And talking about "bounds' which I don't remember any say in.

-- Do you honestly believe I'd bring up the memory of someone you cared about just to hurt you? Asking if you're over someone who meant enough to you that they were in your paradise world doesn't seem all that crazy to me. Maybe I said it badly, but I wasn't trying to accuse you of anything. I was trying to find out if I'm a notch on your bedpost or some rebound or someone you could actually --

[ -- she snaps her mouth shut. How in the absolute hell did they get to this point? ]