There's really no way around this one, is there. The question is straight up, with no room to dance around it with complaining, or reacting to some ridiculous statement, or something else. He curls up his lip, opens his mouth, closes it again, looks even more frustrated, and then half forces out-]
I wanted-
["...to see you, that's all", no, he's definitely not saying that because that could open up yet another opportunity for mocking in the form of biting sarcasm- or at least that's what his more defensive side is telling him. Someone like him saying that would produce no other reaction, after all.
Still, she promised him that she wouldn't lie to him, and him making something completely false up would be betraying that. He's an asshole sometimes, but he's not an asshole, you know? And definitely not a liar, either.
He pulls out the can of peaches and holds it out to her, not unlike how an embarrassed third grader would hold out a valentine to a girl who's pigtails he's been pulling for the past two weeks.]
...Here. Just take it, alright. You're gettin' too skinny. [And... peaches... will help?]
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There's really no way around this one, is there. The question is straight up, with no room to dance around it with complaining, or reacting to some ridiculous statement, or something else. He curls up his lip, opens his mouth, closes it again, looks even more frustrated, and then half forces out-]
I wanted-
["...to see you, that's all", no, he's definitely not saying that because that could open up yet another opportunity for mocking in the form of biting sarcasm- or at least that's what his more defensive side is telling him. Someone like him saying that would produce no other reaction, after all.
Still, she promised him that she wouldn't lie to him, and him making something completely false up would be betraying that. He's an asshole sometimes, but he's not an asshole, you know? And definitely not a liar, either.
He pulls out the can of peaches and holds it out to her, not unlike how an embarrassed third grader would hold out a valentine to a girl who's pigtails he's been pulling for the past two weeks.]
...Here. Just take it, alright. You're gettin' too skinny. [And... peaches... will help?]