Shaking her head, Raleigh's voice cracked when she asked, "How do I tell them? How do I tell them-"

Her face just sort of crumpled and she started to cry, and she shook her head. "I- I'll call them, okay? I'll-" Scrubbing at her cheeks, Raleigh forced herself to nod. "You know, I don't need to talk to you about- I'll call them."

"I just- I just need to... go-" She can't just... be calm, right now. She's tried to just calm herself down; she's tried so many times and it usually works, but this... this wasn't the same, and she shook her head. "Thanks, I just- I need to go." The thought of the pure reason that she'd stayed out here - that she'd not called already, that she has to find some way to tell her mother that she'd left, why she'd left, that she'd stayed away because her life was better here, and it was so incredibly selfish.

And the fact that she didn't want to leave, that the last thing she wanted to do was leave - that was so much worse.