Why It's Hard
It's hard because once you have learned to be careful and to be cautious, it's hard to trust.
Not only them, but yourself.
It's hard because after losing loved ones, you don't want more reasons to cry.
It's hard because in your life, on the run from evil scientists, they use your weaknesses against you and you don't need to give them another weapon.
It's hard because she doesn't want to lose Fang as a friend.
That's why Max pulls away, why she can't seem to except the fact that she's in love.
Because while she seems rock hard, for her even things that can seem simple, like true love, are hard.
Because she learned to prepare for the worst, but she doesn't want to think what the worst outcome for a relationship with Fang will entitleā¦.
What she doesn't know is that pulling away is the worst.
