[She's all set to avoid that offered hand-- nothing personal, it's just on principal-- but then as she's lowering her arm away from her face and starting to get up on her own, she actually gets a good look at the woman she's talking to for the first time.]
[It's a face she knows strongly from photographs and less strongly from the first Cheryl's faded memories (and, to a much lesser extent, that one forgotten meeting they'd had last winter during a similar weekend).]
[.... Mom?]
[Feel free to wonder why this random punky-looking teenager is gaping at you, Jodie.]
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I'm-- I'm fine, it's--
[She's all set to avoid that offered hand-- nothing personal, it's just on principal-- but then as she's lowering her arm away from her face and starting to get up on her own, she actually gets a good look at the woman she's talking to for the first time.]
[It's a face she knows strongly from photographs and less strongly from the first Cheryl's faded memories (and, to a much lesser extent, that one forgotten meeting they'd had last winter during a similar weekend).]
[.... Mom?]
[Feel free to wonder why this random punky-looking teenager is gaping at you, Jodie.]