Friendship restored?

After my triumphant completion of the story for Blizz's contest I was able to enjoy that high for an hour or two before the situation between me and the person from the Shattered Friendship entry very nearly exploded in a very public way. What happened isn't really that important only that it did.

It was bad enough that a good friend of ours had to mediate for us. And yes this meant our "divorce" now had a "marriage counciller" just in case the marriage metaphor wasn't strong enough already.

And so this third party slowly mediated us toward being civil with one another. As we are both very stubborn people, each in our own way, this process took hours. But we did eventually get there. And that thrawed us enough to talk even when our friend left to go to bed and which point a lot of emotions and the reasons behind them came out while the two of us talked.

If nothing else was made apparent that night at the very least one thing clearly was: No matter what else had happened, or how cold, bitter, and frustrated we got with the other, we still deeply cared about the other and the void that was left when the other was gone from our lives was something we were both illequipped to deal with.

Alright... so she cried and my eyes watered and my throat felt as if I HAD cried so that it really didn't matter if I did or not. It's very hard to convince yourself the other person doesn't care when you tell them that the game is more fun for you when they're not there and that person breaks down crying.

So we DID still care. We were both missing the other terribly, and were absouletly miserable without the other. And we'd found a way to at least be civil in public.

That's progress. And it brings us to day two...