I tried. [His shoulders rise and fall.] He even listened. Didn't kick me in the shins or nothing.

[Just looked up at him with those big hazel eyes. Looking at him like he was the monster in the closet that turning the light on didn't scare away anymore, and, in a weird, worse way, like he'd stopped bothering to try.]

When it came down to it...I knew what I had to say, and I couldn't do it.

[A sneer of derision twists his face.] Fuckin' coward.