Adam tried not to be hurt as Louisa pushed his hand away but he knew that it wasn't personal and that she just didn't want to show emotion in front of him. He understood. After all hadn't he crushed a can with his hand instead of letting Louisa know what he was really feeling? Hadn't he done everything in his power to push her away when he found out about his parents kicking him out of the house? At the time he had done the same thing and Louisa had pushed back, and now it was his turn to do the same. He listened as she spoke saying that she was tired, keeping his eyes away so that she could let the tears fall as much as she wanted to.

"No, I wasn't going to say that," Adam said with a small shake of the head. "I don't know what happened and you don't have to tell me if you don't want to, but I know that there's nothing that anyone can say that is going to make it hurt less. Love is just....painful," Adam said with a small shrug of the shoulders. He used the word love but he wasn't sure if Louisa had ever come out and said that she loved Joao. She had least strongly liked him, and Adam wasn't always the best with words, so hopefully she understood what he was trying to say.

He made eye contact with Louisa for the first time as she started pushing her pieces of parchment onto his lap. He took a hold of them before scooting closer to her so that he could set the papers on the other side of him on the bench. They were now so close that Adam could put his arm around her. "Listen Louisa, you have been there for me when I have been at my worst and have shown you the worst of me, so I just want you to know that you don't have to hold back with me. If you need to cry then let yourself cry, because I'd rather have you do it here with someone who cares about you then trying to hold it in and suffering alone. Take it from someone who knows...keeping it in doesn't do any good."