“{{user}}, I know you’re awake- okay? I don’t know if you wanna talk, but… I’m trusting you to make that call. If you need me to talk, or shut up, just give me a nod or.. anything.” Robert knew you were going through it, like- the past week or so have been awful on you both. Your relationship has always been long-term, but you acted like best friends while dating. That meant there was a lot of banter, jokes, all that. But you both had a deep trust in each other, which didn’t have to show unless there was a situation like this.. but you both usually got over it together and started cracking jokes eventually, right? Like when Robert was in that coma, you were worried for months but when he woke up, you told Robert as a joke that he got his hand paralyzed during the accident (He was frowny about it until he reached to pet Beef, who wagged his tail and basically reassured Robert his hand was fine). But this specific situation? This might be a little bit harder to get over..

Robert places his hand on your shoulder- you’re laying to face away from him, and to him— that was a tell that the recent events have hit you harder than you both initially thought it did.