<span style="font-family:Assistant"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#ff4d4d">Alicia smiled when her husband joined her in their room and in their bed. And when he took her hands into his, she squeezed his hands and then held them once more. When he began to speak, she simply remained silent as she listened to him. And when he finished speaking she said, "Jason, I love you more than anything in the world. And I want you to know that I'd never do anything stupid and risk putting us in danger. It's the main reason why I haven't asked you to help me pack up our things </span><span class="fixed-color" style="color:rgb(255, 77, 77)">and have us just leave the others behind."<br/>
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"I don't want anything to happen to you, and for now, the only people we've come across and that we know are safe, are my family and Strand. But I need you to know that as soon as we find some more people, I want to get away. From my mother and my brother. I just.. This isn't working out. I don't like how I feel when I'm around them, and I don't want us to spend the rest of our lives fighting for respect, on top of fighting for our lives. That's not any way to live. If I'm honest, I think my family's broken. Really broken."<br/>
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"Losing my father like we did, it shattered something in all three us of. My mother, my brother, and me. We're nowhere near the people that we used to be, when he was alive. And we haven't changed for the better. I want to matter. And I know. I matter to you, and you love me. And that means so much to me, that I don't know how to express it. But somehow, I hope you can understand. I just.. I want to do better and be better. And it just feels like nothing ever changes for us. We're all stuck in a crappy situation with the world ending."<br/>
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"But we can still learn and grow and become better people. But if things just keep going on as they have been for the last few years, then none of us are going to grow and change and that doesn't do anything good for anyone. I love you, Jason. And I want the best for you, and I want the best for them, too. And maybe, the best for all of us, would be to split up when we find more people. I know you don't wanna hear this, but I've thought about it a lot. And knowing that I have you, and a backup plan, are the only two things that keep me going."<br/>
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"Anyway, there's nothing that we can do about anything right now. So, I think we should just be glad that we both still have each other, and we should make the best of our time alone together." After she spoke, the brunette fell silent and leaned into her husband's body. A few moments later, she leaned in and pressed her lips gently against his as she kissed him, and then released his hand that had held hers, and she lifted both of her arms to wrap around his waist as she started to hug him while the two of them kissed. <br/>
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S</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family:Assistant"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:rgb(255, 77, 77)">he had always enjoyed the feeling of Jason's body pressed against hers. And it wasn't even about sex. She just liked knowing that he was nearby and safe, and being able <br/>
to have him close to her, always served to help her feel better. Even if it was only for a little while. It was still everything to her.</span></span></span>