[Mm.

He's quiet for a moment, fussing with his clothes a bit even though there's nothing about them worth fussing over, and it takes him a second to find words. He really just wants to brush this whole thing off, to ignore it and declare everything done for the day, but...]

If anything, I tend to understand people acting like that better than anything else. Wanting something from others is just the natural way of things, it's just usually the concept of what you want from someone that changes. I haven't...earned anything else from anyone.

[This is kind of weird to talk about, but he's at least trying.]

It makes sense to me that you wouldn't actually care - not because of you, but because people won't care unless you make them care, and it isn't as though I've done anything to warrant it.

I'm aware that people don't care about me. It's more confusing to me that you do. It makes more sense for that to all be lies as well.

[...okay this is entirely too much discussion of his issues we're going to back the fuck up now if nobody minds - ]

Don't worry about it, either way. Consider what happened back then to be a nonissue.