Secrets between foxes

[Alva Ren]

You got no proof to the contrary, Ryland! 😏

Well I wouldn't feel right leaving Rae here all alone anyway.

Everything okay with you and Aldon? Is it awkward?

[Ryland Ren]

SOooooo awkward..

[Alva Ren]

😬 How come? Isn't he happy to see you?

[Ryland Ren]

Yeah
Kinda
It's like we reversed roles or something

[Alva Ren]

What do you mean? What's he doing?

[Ryland Ren]

Being STUPID
I don't know how to deal with him, Alva.
I laugh, he gets upset. Then I get upset and it's the same cycle I didn't want to get sucked into again!

[Alva Ren]

Then don't get sucked into it. You're there to break the cycle, not to keep repeating old mistakes, Ry.

The things you want to do that you've been doing all along
Well, do something different! Do the opposite!

You have to work with Aldon, Ry. You need to be patient, he's not going to get it right away.

[Ryland Ren]

I'm not sure I should be here.
I feel like I did the wrong thing.

[Alva Ren]

Trust him, Ry. Open up to him, don't shut him out.

I get you. It's scary opening your heart again after someone's hurt you that badly. I felt the same exact way with Rae, you know?

But sometimes you just have to take a blind leap of faith, Ry. Sometimes you have to let people surprise you and believe that they love you enough to want to make it work.

[Ryland Ren]

I don't know
this feels more and more
wrong

[Alva Ren]

Stop

I'm sorry, I love you both but you don't know how to not feel sorry for yourselves. Both of you. You focus on yourselves so much that you forget there's another person there.

Rae cheated on me and we still managed to talk things through. Don't you think that your love is worth at least a civil and adult conversation?

[Ryland Ren]

We're not feeling sorry!
I don't know what to DO with him.
You make it sound so easy, like just be adult and civil
Even THAT'S just weird

[Alva Ren]

It's only weird because you've both been childish all this time Ry! Aldon too, not just you.

Be an adult, for goodness sake!
Don't DO anything with him. Talk to him. Let him talk to you.

[Ryland Ren]

I don't think this is happening.

He's better off with that other guy, Alva.
The only thing I have for him is confusion and hurt.

[Alva Ren]

If you don't work this out
I'm disowning you

Because I know you can do this
And you want to do this

Would it help if I was there? Or if you guys came here and then
I don't know, let me try to smooth things out?

I just feel like you guys have the tools to do this, you just
Need to sit down for five minutes and actually WORK at it!
You haven't had to work that hard to get together, but you have to work to stay together Ry. Give it your all. And then if it still doesn't work, at least you can say you left nothing behind. Otherwise you'll regret it for the rest of your life, to have this opportunity and to let it go.