[Text Post 02]//Locked from Micchy

[dangerousidol]

What do you do when one of your best friends here tells you something really scary and painful?

How are you supposed to deal with that?

How are you not supposed to be terrified of them?

Especially when they told you they'd protect you from any danger. When they've been nothing but nice to you, but what they did makes them a really bad person. When they still might be a bad person, but they're trying not to be.

I told them I can't talk to them until I figure things out. This feels worse than a breakup. Anyone have any advice?

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[preybeforemeals]

[This is the sort of thing Tsukiyama is really not comfortable having his name attached to, but it's something that's striking a little too personally for him to leave it alone. Anon text it is, then...]

I won't say that you shouldn't be afraid of them, if you believe that you have good reason to be. Just the same, there's something to be said for the fact that they told you at all, isn't there?

It's possible that whomever this is has done terrible things, but in that case it would be to their benefit to keep quiet about it. Isn't it likewise possible that they told you because they didn't want to deceive you or lie by omission anymore?

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[dangerousidol]

I know. I just have a really bad experience with people who were really nice to me, and then wound up being killers. Obsessed and possessive, delusional fans, people who just wanted to use me. Then there was the man who tried to 'save me', and that almost caused me to die. I can't get myself to trust people who admit to being killers.

Hearing those things from them just brings all that back again.

I'm not doing this to out them. I'm doing this because I need advice on what to do. I don't want to be a bad person by not giving them a chance, but I don't know if I can ever give them that chance again, no matter how sorry they are.

[She's only comfortable saying all of these things because of how many people had seen her dream, and the one person who could have died because of her dream. There's no sense hiding it anymore.]

[preybeforemeals]

That's fine, as their identity matters very little to me. Outing people is something I tend to take personal offense to, anyway.

There's a difference, though, between liking someone and trusting them. It's entirely possible to care about someone and not trust them at all, and that doesn't make you a bad person.

[dangerousidol]

I don't know how I can care about someone without trusting them.

[preybeforemeals]

It just means not letting them too close. Being careful, and keeping an eye on things, and being mindful of what's happening. You don't have to suspect everything they do, but at the same time, there's going to be distance there.

You can't give all of yourself to everyone. That's just the way life is, unfortunately.

[dangerousidol]

That does sound like good advice.

Thank you.