[How unusual for Armin to call without using video. Actually, for that matter, he sounds a bit off as well. Very stuffy. As if he is coming down with a cold. or has been crying.]
I know I said we could go diving this weekend, but I think I am going to have to cancel. Something... something has come up.
[Logically, he knows all of that. And he won't deny he feels say, not to himself anyway. It's being open about those feelings with others that is always the problem. In some ways, he's a very private individual. He had always only shared these sort of feelings with Mikasa and Eren. And later, here in this world, Jean and to some extend Shiro. But that wasn't possible anymore, was it? Not now Jean was gone.]
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[How unusual for Armin to call without using video. Actually, for that matter, he sounds a bit off as well. Very stuffy. As if he is coming down with a cold.
or has been crying.]I know I said we could go diving this weekend, but I think I am going to have to cancel. Something... something has come up.
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What's wrong? Are you alright?
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[He's not all right. But he's going to have to borrow one from Shiro's book and say.]
I'm fine.
[There is a small intake of breath before he quickly says:]
Some of my friends went home.
[It is like ripping off a bandage, right? If you just say it quick enough it doesn't hurt, right?
wrong.]
I just found out and I'm sorry-- I just don't think I'd be very good to dive with right now.
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I'm so very sorry. You don't have to pretend you're alright, you shouldn't pretend it's fine and you're fine.
You're suffering a great loss. It's alright to be shaken by it.
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I just don't want to impose on you.
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Hearts hurt and need tending and care the same way bodies do.
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[Says the woman who's go to move is to do things and handle things without ever telling anyone.]
But I'm here for you, Armin.
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[But, amazingly, it doesn't get easier each time. It really doesn't.]
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It's okay to let yourself hurt.