A sudden change came over it. Bragging and making other people feel jealous was much easier than... than this. Her eyes burned at the thought of her relatives and that she was on their mind.

Or perhaps it was the word 'missed'.

She wasn't going to cry. If she started...

She broke anyway. She brought her hands up to cover her face. She seemed to visibly shrink. Her shoulder shook as she began to sob, breaking down into the lost little child she felt like.