[He sighs, hand coming up to rest against his cheek, giving him something to prop his head up with.]

See, this is why honesty sucks. The minute you try and be even a little honest, suddenly everything is serious.

[It's both a teasing but true statement, said with a laugh but a bit of a bite in his tone as well.]

Don't really know what you expect me to do though. If I followed that advice, I'd be a mess pretty much all the time. I told you how I feel earlier, didn't I? How I really feel, what I really want to do? [Nothing. He wants to do absolutely nothing, just curl up and hide in his room and never come back out.]

It's easier for everyone, I think, if I just go about doing what I normally do. I don't know how to even begin dealing with the bulk of how I feel.