She laughed. “Okay, that makes sense. I mean, I imagined that you were that sort of person. The kind to stay out of trouble if he could help it, I mean. You don’t seem like a mischievous type of person. I mean that in the nicest way,” she added with a grin.
She shrugged. “I don’t see the point in going around things. I feel like I can save a lot of time if I just say what I mean instead of saying something vaguely and hoping for the best,” she said, looking over at him. “So yeah, I get what you mean too. I never know.”
“Yeah,” he nodded. “I mean, I also had to kind of… Think about consequences, right? Get a detention, miss a practice. Fail a class, sit out games. And it’s always better for me if my dad doesn’t get involved,” he said. He supposed that was true for a lot of kids—at least the stuff about the parents.
“That’s how I feel,” he agreed, and then sighed. “I mean I guess… I guess sometimes it’s just hard to say what you want to say,” he said, the words coming out slowly, thoughtfully. He’d certainly had enough trouble with that over the last little while. And his entire life.
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