[ ...ouch. She sniffed, unable to hold tears back any longer. ]

Matthew, it was at camp, and you were already upset with me over something so insignificant as the Hikaru thing, how was I supposed to tell you I was going to go kill someone?

[ The guilt bubbled back up again. Not, she realized, like it had ever left in the first place. She'd regretting telling Alfred before the words had even finished leaving her lips, but she'd been able to live with it, when she was sure Matthew wouldn't have found out. ]

...over this?