D, age 25.

He doesn't want to talk once the cards are out. Strange because he tells me everything, I think. He won't elaborate when I tell them they're independent, side by side perhaps but alone, whatever else may be between them.

And what else is between them? The love and jealousy I read are his own, he can't speak for her; later, it's all over he says, and I understand his reticence.