A week or so ago now I went to my friends apartment for a party she was hosting.
I live a bit further than the rest of the guests so I came earlier to make it easier to get there, and was going to help set up. While we were saying hi and all that, she asked me if I had invited a friend I had a big falling out with last summer and stopped talking to entirely, since she told me I could invite some extra people if I wanted. I said no and she questioned why not, so I had to admit that we aren’t friends anymore. She was really surprised and asked me why, and I tried to answer vaguely and not get into it but she kept asking follow up questions and essentially holding me hostage in that conversation until she got a proper explanation out of me.

I felt my face get really warm and my voice get shaky, and I was surprised with myself because I haven’t thought about it in a while, so I wasn’t expecting to get upset. But the more I talked, my eyes were welling up with tears really quickly and I didn’t even have time to process if I should try to suppress it before I was visibly teary eyed. When the first tear actually went down my face I didn’t bother wiping it because I knew she could already tell I was crying so there was no point. I was super embarrassed, not necessarily about crying in front of her but more about getting so emotional about something that happened long ago and wasn’t that big of a deal.

When she’d managed to make me tell her everything, She put her hand on my face and stroked her thumb over my cheek, while giving sympathy for what happened. A tear left the eye on the other side and made it next to my nose before she pulled my face closer to hers and kissed the tear away. I was so caught off-guard i recoiled away from her, but she just smiled at me and took her hand back. She asked yet another follow up question, which I started answering but my voice broke and several more tears streamed out of both eyes, so I decided to stop myself mid-sentence and instead told her
“Let’s not talk about this, I’m gonna cry my eyes out” while laughing a little at myself.
She tilted her head and sort of looked me up and down, then went “Do you want to?”
I didn’t say anything cause I didn’t get what she meant, but she clarified “You know, there’s an hour before anyone else gets here. You could cry, I wouldn’t mind.”

I was flustered by her bluntness so I just rambled about how it’s not that big of a deal and I shouldn’t even be upset etc etc. Maybe it would have been nice but I didn’t want to make myself sad before a party where I was gonna be drinking since sad+drunk is not a great combo for anybody. She shrugged in a kind of ‘well,suit yourself’ type of way and then put her hand on my face again, asking me
“But you’re okay though,right?”
She was really close to my face so I looked off to the side, completely avoiding eye contact with her and said “yes, I’m fine.”
After getting confirmation, she tilted my face down to kiss the top of my head. She then started walking away to the kitchen and told me to go clean myself up in the bathroom and then come help her set up the party, which I did. When I looked in the mirror I noticed I had a really faint lipstick stain  on my cheek from the kiss so I had to wipe that off as well.

I think her reaction was very sweet even tho in the moment it mostly freaked me out haha. I bet it drove her crazy that I kept trying to dodge her questions and comfort lol.

Last edited by Daydream (January 22, 2026 5:46 pm)