Alex knew that the both of them were on good terms right now but she didn't want to push it. She didn't want to put a strain on their relationship right now.
She had been trying to get through to Ella ever since they had come back from the funeral. She didn't try to reach out to her when they were there. She felt the need to give her that space. But when they had come back, she knew she couldn't leave her to herself anymore unless it would have serious consequences.
She had been in her position before and she could remember the lure of snaring to regress into your shell and never come out. She remembered it so well. Maybe because the pain never fully went away, she thought almost out loud as she was getting dressed.
She didn't know what else to do but be herself. How to help her was going to be a hard task that she had not thought through. It was something that she had been battling all her life. The pain and the loneliness that she felt inside.