Lola smiles a little at Letha trying to be comforting, it is and isn't working. It works because Lola is tactile and very much into hugs. It isn't working because the older girl seems to need to vent as much as Lola does.

Lola hadn't realized what holding all this in was doing to her.

"It's good to mope sometimes, you can't just bury how you feel just because it makes other people uncomfortable. That's... actually how Miles and I met, or, got close. I'd talk about what was bothering me, and he could talk about what was bothering him." Lola and Miles weren't really a storybook romance. Not unless Prince Charming sleeping with another girl while he waited for his Sleeping Beauty to wake up was how things went. But her pain wasn't a secret from him, and she didn't mock him with empty pity. "While I'd really like it if you didn't bring any zombies around, if you wanna talk about home. And what you miss, and your husband. I can listen."