[And he is. More so than he is about most things, albeit in an oblique way. Riley is important, Riley matters, and if she's going to ice him out for something he's damn well going to know what it is. Never mind that half an hour ago he was avoiding everyone he knew like the plague. Never mind that half of this is just him digging his heels in out of sheer stubbornness. It doesn't matter. Riley matters.]
What do you think you've done to me that's so bad? I don't know. I can't know unless you tell me.
[But he's missing a piece, of course. To me. He thinks it's something she did to him, specifically. Because bad things happen, they've all done bad things, and that day in the tree is the farthest thing from his mind.]
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[And he is. More so than he is about most things, albeit in an oblique way. Riley is important, Riley matters, and if she's going to ice him out for something he's damn well going to know what it is. Never mind that half an hour ago he was avoiding everyone he knew like the plague. Never mind that half of this is just him digging his heels in out of sheer stubbornness. It doesn't matter. Riley matters.]
What do you think you've done to me that's so bad? I don't know. I can't know unless you tell me.
[But he's missing a piece, of course. To me. He thinks it's something she did to him, specifically. Because bad things happen, they've all done bad things, and that day in the tree is the farthest thing from his mind.]