"I don't know, maybe?" She doesn't mean for her voice to crack as she says that. She certainly doesn't want it to. But once it does, like the tiniest fracture in a dam that grows wider and wider from the pressure behind it --

(You ever had somebody say something that hurt so much, she said to Max once, it still hurts a little even after you forgive 'em?)

"Maybe he's not that different. Maybe he just said all that nice stuff to me because it got me to stop destroying everything. Maybe he was just lying the whole time, what do I know?!"