Hey, sorry, that was just like . . . I probably should've taken notes on your text, know what I mean? I'm not gonna type all that out! This is serious . . .

[He sighs. Sure, he's fooled around plenty, but he's not exactly equipped for—this. And he's tense, worried about whatever's going on with Veronica. This is a girl whose hobby is apologizing to people for them being dicks to her. He doesn't want her to get taken advantage of by some psycho creep . . .

So he has to try.]

Okay, okay, first of all, what exactly did this dude say you and the books were wrong about again?

[Because she actually might be. Maybe she read some weird romance novel that told her dicks glow blue, he doesn't know. Or maybe this guy's trying to play her.]