[He trails off, staring down at his coffee, and then finally shrugs.]
Look I—maybe someday I wanna tell you about—me an' my classmates and why it's kinda . . . I guess you should probably know. It involves all that stuff that happened at home . . . buuuut not tonight! Not when you just got back, right? I'm all about celebrating tonight! I'm not gonna drag it down with that kinda thing!
[He gathers himself and grins back up at him.]
That all sounds way worse than it is though! Actually, that stuff doesn't have a whole lot to do with me and him now, come to think of it. So it's still kinda complicated, but not in the bad way?
[And then, because he can't not say this:]
—Don't tell Kazuya if you're rich now, man, you'll never hear the end of it.
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[He trails off, staring down at his coffee, and then finally shrugs.]
Look I—maybe someday I wanna tell you about—me an' my classmates and why it's kinda . . . I guess you should probably know. It involves all that stuff that happened at home . . . buuuut not tonight! Not when you just got back, right? I'm all about celebrating tonight! I'm not gonna drag it down with that kinda thing!
[He gathers himself and grins back up at him.]
That all sounds way worse than it is though! Actually, that stuff doesn't have a whole lot to do with me and him now, come to think of it. So it's still kinda complicated, but not in the bad way?
[And then, because he can't not say this:]
—Don't tell Kazuya if you're rich now, man, you'll never hear the end of it.