When he listened she was glad that he finally actually listened to her and it didn't just go in one ear and out the other. Usually that was all it had done, much like a child- in one ear and right out the other. But he was actually listening to her.
A tiny part of her was mad. She was mad because she gave it all away. She quit the music scene for her family. For him. For her kids. She gave it all up in an instant so they could be normal again. And then, just like that, all of a sudden he was in the movies because of Top Gun.
"It just all blew up so fast, and I just want things to be the way it used to be. I miss us, I miss the way we were. We were just getting our marriage back to the way it should be." she nodded. "You are good at it, you are very good at it. I just wish it did not come with all of this, and all of these other women being in your life." she was being brutally honest but, she never felt pretty enough, her entire life. Griffin was her best friend, and she always felt ugly standing next to her and now? Now she had to be next to all these fucking co-stars that looked like Sydney goddamn Sweeny. She just wanted it to be normal again.
She looked at him when he looked at her with no distance between them, "You do NOT need to flip burgers babe. That is not it at all." she sighed. "I just hat California now. I miss the quiet of home. Kansas City is even home to me. I was there for years. I dunno I am just tired of this place." she nodded looking into his eyes. "And I you."