[How to say this neatly, politely, without fucking it up: the fact that he knows what Jay's doing. The fact that he knows what Jay's doing because it's precisely what Brian ended up doing. The miserable, the isolated, the freak of a kid who had no friends, and Brian was just naturally the type of guy who would scrape something like that up off the ground and clap it on the shoulder, and stick around because who the hell else was going to?]
[How to say this without ruining the set-up Jay's spent so much time on: I'm sick of other people's pity. He's got more than enough to heap onto himself without anyone else helping out.]
[How to say the other thing: you don't have to bother. Or the other thing: you can just give up. Or the other thing: it'd be easier if you would.]
Then why go to...all this?
[For his sake, on his behalf - him, someone who's never come close to doing the same to anyone?]
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[How to say this without ruining the set-up Jay's spent so much time on: I'm sick of other people's pity. He's got more than enough to heap onto himself without anyone else helping out.]
[How to say the other thing: you don't have to bother. Or the other thing: you can just give up. Or the other thing: it'd be easier if you would.]
Then why go to...all this?
[For his sake, on his behalf - him, someone who's never come close to doing the same to anyone?]