Carol Learns to Lose, Maybe

Carol's either truly feeling it, or she's playing the sympathy card, hard. "I've never known what it is to lose, and now I do... I'm not the kind of person to go up to someone and be all, 'be my friend.' " Laying there on the couch in Zach's arms as he gently caressed her thigh. I feel like I'm writing a romance novel, but that's really what he was doing... in a purely comforting way, of course.