I let out a dejected huff as she explained that she couldn't help me. I guess I hadn't realized how much I was hoping she could fix it until now. It's one reason I had been putting this off for a while now, because once she said no I had to admit that I was stuck here.

"It wasn't this morning. It was a while ago," I said. That was the only part of the conversation that I trusted myself to reply to.