>>19050747Andi hands Robyn the letter and leans against her.
>"Thanks for helping me with this. I feel really dumb, about having trouble reading, but it's not that I don't KNOW how, you know? It's just when I try, like, it doesn't work. I know what all the letters are supposed to be, and all the words, and then when I actually look at them nothing makes any sense. It's why I've been so bad at school, y'know, but I tried. I always tried. Well, not always; sure, eventually I got frustrated and started fucking around. But I tried A LOT."Andi rests her head on Robyn's shoulder and looks at the letter. She can make out some letters and words and even phrases, but so much of it is a jumble of lines. Sometimes she has to concentrate on one letter at a time for a line to make any sense. So she gives up trying to read it and keeps talking.
>"And it's Dad, too, y'know? He's always wanted me to be a doctor, or do some other smart person shit, but I couldn't do it. My mom died; something went wrong when I was born, and she didn't make it long after that. So my Dad married a younger woman, and she's all right; used to make a bunch of kickass Indian food, like tandoori chicken and lamb saag and naan paneer and that kinda thing, when I was little. But when my brothers were born and I started fucking up at school, things weren't great with my Dad or stepmom any more after that. And then Dad spent a bunch of money to send me to college to be a doctor, but I fucked that up, and did some pretty wild shit because I was frustrated, and got arrested for it, and they basically told me to go off on my own and figure things out for myself. Which is how I ended up here."Andi realizes she's rambling, and puts an arm around Robyn's waist and gives her a gentle squeeze.
>"Sorry, I'll let you read. It's just got me thinking about all this again." 