"Nicholas, thank you... I truly am. You've been someone who had helped me and given me a friend that one could ever ask for... But please forgive me, because I am afraid that I might get hurt again," There might be something that happened to her in the past, which made her doubt everyone with good intentions towards her.
Seeing her eyes, having droplets of tears fall, I've felt that this was the lady she really wanted to show anyone. And just like myself trying to hide the truth about myself, both of us hiding behind our own facade. To depict another version of ourselves. Yet, both of us knew and already showing each other and opening up to each other.
We sat there and gazed upon the beauty of the city lights. As the moon is about to set any moment now. While the sun rises for the start of a morning. As she sipped in the hot soup, she was blankly staring at the same view.