Ashley listened and nodded in understanding. Someday she was going to be the strong one so he could let out any think he felt. She wondered, in the very back of her mind, what had happened to him. It must of been so terrible to make him feel like he had to detached from everything. Ashley noticed he moved back towards her. A small smile somehow formed on her lips and she moved towards him. She leaned against him and rested her head on his shoulder.<br/><br/>"I think... it is how you try to keep from being hurt again," she murmured, "...But you know... you can't always repress everything... less it boil over..."