I feel Christina's breath pattern change and her body language telling me she is insecure and anxious. I lean close to her (her back facing me), caress her hair with one hand, sliding it to her shoulder and instinctively place the palm of my other hand on the outer part of her cheek, feeling...

Tears, I feel a warm tear that seeped from the outer corner of your cheek, landing on my finger.

I wipe the tear streak with my thumb and caress your cheek, going lower, sliding my body closer to yours in order to place my other hand on your other cheek to wipe your tears. As soon as I approached my other hand to your cheek I felt...

I feel your cheek bones raising, I assume you are smiling, I guess wiping your tears from behind you wasn't expected, or was I being too proud? Since I wasn't seeing your face, I doubted a bit, was it me or did John finally took the initiative to take care of Christina's tears (especially since there was more than a single stream of tears on her face)?

Anyways, I felt glad Chris was smiling, her breath pattern evened and her body relaxed and was more comfortable.

I have mixed feelings, even though I know that Chris releasing her feelings is healthy,seeing her tear streaked face made me feel the impulse to take care of her tears, which I refrained when I felt John move closer to her and lift his hand moving it towards her face...

I was very proud of John, who was finally, even if clumsy, to take the initiative to take care of Christina's tears, it was his right after all, plus, she was more time with him than me, the odds of her needing to comfort her were on him being more available.

On the other hand, I am the one who usually comforts my friends (including married ones) and seeing a tear from my dear friend land on John's hand instead of him proactively seeking her tears and tear streaks, spurred me to bring my hand to her available cheek and wipe all the tear streaks, from the inner corner to the outer corner of her eyes with the pad of my fingers, smoothly and expertly turning my hand to wipe, with the back of my fingers, from below her eyes to her chin, clearing most tears from one side of her face. Chris...