[Any other time, talking to anybody else, it might have sounded like a revelation, but he knows full well what his mother wants. He knows she finds this tiresome, an irritation, a burden. He knows she can't -- or maybe just doesn't want to -- understand why the way she's squeezing his arm and the way she's speaking to him in that voice makes him so very uneasy, so very filled with something like anger... except it's quieter, tamer, so much more tired than it's ever been before.]
You want me to stop thinkin' about it because you don't wanna hear about it.
[She may drop to the floor before him, may seek to meet his eyes, but he'll do his best to look away from her direct gaze, no matter how childish it makes him appear. He knows that, to all appearances, he must seem pathetic, immature, irrational, but he doesn't care. If he could summon the words to tell her he just wants to be alone, he wouldn't. But he can't, so this token argument, this argument that can't possibly go well (if there's anything that could possibly go well anymore) is all he can give.]
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[Any other time, talking to anybody else, it might have sounded like a revelation, but he knows full well what his mother wants. He knows she finds this tiresome, an irritation, a burden. He knows she can't -- or maybe just doesn't want to -- understand why the way she's squeezing his arm and the way she's speaking to him in that voice makes him so very uneasy, so very filled with something like anger... except it's quieter, tamer, so much more tired than it's ever been before.]
You want me to stop thinkin' about it because you don't wanna hear about it.
[She may drop to the floor before him, may seek to meet his eyes, but he'll do his best to look away from her direct gaze, no matter how childish it makes him appear. He knows that, to all appearances, he must seem pathetic, immature, irrational, but he doesn't care. If he could summon the words to tell her he just wants to be alone, he wouldn't. But he can't, so this token argument, this argument that can't possibly go well (if there's anything that could possibly go well anymore) is all he can give.]