[It's stupid. A stupid way to put it. HIs shadow said as much, even if none of them have so much as mentioned that since it happened. You don't have to go to all this over me. Even worse, considering that Jay's already done it.]
[You don't have to bother.]
[You don't have to pretend.]
[Stop lying to me.]
I didn't mean...that.
[He's sounding more and more like Jay; hemming and hawing and stricken with a seeming inability to just spit it out like he used to think he could.]
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[It's stupid. A stupid way to put it. HIs shadow said as much, even if none of them have so much as mentioned that since it happened. You don't have to go to all this over me. Even worse, considering that Jay's already done it.]
[You don't have to bother.]
[You don't have to pretend.]
[Stop lying to me.]
I didn't mean...that.
[He's sounding more and more like Jay; hemming and hawing and stricken with a seeming inability to just spit it out like he used to think he could.]
I just meant, like - over, you know. Over me.
[I'm not worth this.]
[And both of us know it.]