« I have to tell you something. »
As if a bomb just has been dropped in the room, Aubrey feels nothing but confusion. She was hearing distant sounds, Basil's machine leading this orchestral silence. As she was slowly reconnecting with her thoughts, it was like her brain couldn't process it. As if everything that just happened wasn't even real.
That's true, anything of the past few days could have been real. Seeing Sunny outside couldn't have been real in the first place. Get angry at Kel again, once again couldn't have been real. Hero reassuring her couldn't have been real. Being one day with her childhood friends again, finally paying respects to Mari's grave together as it should always have been, talking, playing, confessing her guilt about Basil's harassment, crying and hugging all together. Same. Couldn't have been real. She prayed for so long at the church for that to be real, that it was just a play of her twisted mind.
Past few days have been such messed up emotionally, but even Sunny and Basil fighting each other to death in the middle of the night was more understandable than that. She was always true to her feelings, Aubrey knew that and hated herself for that. But this time, she couldn't even be true to what she was feeling. True to what she should be now? True to a lie she lived on for so many years? Has her pain been real at all? It wasn't making any sense. She felt helpless.
She looks up and directly searches for Sunny's gaze. Surely, he was as usual, avoiding everyone's gaze. Or not. Maybe not this time. No, it wasn't his usual blank face, the one that when you look at it you just feel like you could not by any means in the world understand what was going on in his mind. She was understanding what he was feeling. Tears were forming at the corners of his eyes, he was biting his mouth, as to prevent himself from breaking down in front of everyone. His gaze was, despite all the pain luring in, screaming his persistence to finally stand the truth. Even if Sunny himself hadn't the damn clue of what he was doing for Aubrey, she felt like back then, when Sunny was always here for her, according to her special time, just the two of them, it was like everyone, or rather everything had disappeared apart from the two of them.
She was broken by the truth, but the confusion fades into a terribly regretful, but sincere, sunrise. As the hard reality was catching up, Aubrey breaks this untouchable silence: « Thank you. »