In which Shelby deals with terrible hindsight.

[shelbycobra]

Shelby is glad to find her door to the Nexus waiting for her. She needs to get the hell out of Indianapolis right now because she feels like the worst person on the planet. Which is an odd feeling when she's just been named four-time IndyCar champion two days ago, but there it is. Her latest victory doesn't mean a whole lot to her at the moment.

That's because she and her best friend have just had a six-year overdue argument. Shelby never claimed to be the most mature person back then but she also had no idea that she had done so much damage to someone that she cared for. Someone who was, if she was honest, the first person she'd ever really loved.

She feels ashamed, and embarrassed, and frightened all over again because she's dealing with this while having to make a huge decision about her future and worry about a physical that will tell her if she even has a future. Any one of those things would make her nervous; all three and she feels like the world's caving in. Which is, again, not what she wants to feel after working her ass off to capture a fourth championship.

So by the time she goes through the door, she's on the verge of tears, and she's just going to sit down in the nearest available corner to take slow, deep breaths until she can compose herself. She isn't going back through that door until she knows she's not going to fall apart and has a clue about what she's supposed to do to make things right.

Does she make amends for what happened six years ago (can she)? Or does she focus on not screwing things up a second time? And is there some way, somehow, that she can just catch her breath and not be thinking about everything else?

"How do you fix hurting your best friend?" she says, talking to herself but this is the Nexus so she's pretty sure everyone will overhear her.

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[callmeles]

Piper was making her way through the Plaza of the Nexus. With hardly any time passing from this world and her own, Piper spent a lot of time here. She'd set up her PINPoint account and spent a lot of time at the library, reading and researching everything she found interesting. She was heading back toward the door that would lead her home but first she stopped at one of the coffee stands, bought something to drink. She was just paying when she over heard the question.

Hurting your best friend? Well, she definitely had history with that particular subject. It was becoming easier to talk about without either closing off completely or breaking down. It was the small things right? She asked for a hot chocolate, paid for it before making her way over to the young woman with both drinks.

"My biggest piece of advice? Don't wait to long to go to them, apologize if you need to and talk it out," she said, stepping closer to her. "Coffee or a hot chocolate? You look like you could use a drink."

[OOC: I would have thrown Les at her but Piper was like 'nah'.]

[betashiftblues]

"....That's not the sort of thing that's easy to fix." The voice who answers Shelby is quiet, not easily heard over her own deep breaths. In truth the Andorian looks about a second or two from excusing himself already but her question hits a bit closer to home than he would have liked to admit to himself.

"If they're so close to you....it would have taken a lot to hurt them to begin with." Halting speech, hesitant but trying to explain. He's mostly humanoid if not a shocking shade of blue with stark white hair. His antennae droop somewhat with his concern.