[She stood up and held out a hand to him, more than willing to help him stand up and even walk, if the injury was that bad.

There was an opportunity to brush away the tears and she took it, which at least stopped them from falling more.]

It's stupid... it didn't take long to tell they weren't real... it wasn't hard to tell it wasn't you when the person ran from me, but stopped to look back...

[She recognized they were fake, and honestly what hurt the most wasn't so much that they were fake, that they existed at all... it was...]

I knew it wasn't Matt- it couldn't be, but... I wanted it to be him so bad. I didn't care that it was a fake.