Jackie didn't say much. Even thought Keith knew there was more. She had always been private. There was once she let Keith into her internal world. They'd spent the night together, before
Spacecity
and all of that. It rained hard while they were walking home so they were cold, she had to wear some of Keith's clothes to get warm, and they drank hot tea under their respective blankets. They talked the whole night about everything, and she told him all the things she was scared about, and him the same. They drifted off to sleep exhausted probably at 4 am.
When they woke up she was mad at him for pushing her to say all those things. "What were people going to think?" she said.
She didn't want him to know that, she wasn't planning on telling anyone any of that, and she stormed out. The next day in classes they didn't talk. Nor the next day. Only about a week later she brought him a coffee and they started talking again, not about anything they said that night, about herself, more about everything else.
Since then and a while after Keith was in space and they chatted here and there. Sometimes writing letters about bands and things they were 'digging' at the time. Never though like that night. Never mentioning it again.
So Keith knew there was more when she said "You know same old, just been chilling, working and chilling."
