['So we're even.' Hayley actually understands that sentiment, appreciating its finality in a way that his more aggressive and overt statements failed to produce. She's oblivious to the kindnesses he grants her, the softening of verbal blows and attempts to maintain when he might normally have withdrawn already. Instead, all she sees are the results and, as such, it's that much easier to end the line of thought without comment.]
I don't know what you mean. I actually run around telling everybody. [Sarcasm comes easier than anything else and, somehow, they know each other well enough to understand each others' deflections, dryness, and humor in a strange way. Hayley knows that he'll take the words for what they are rather than any form of dismissing.]
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I don't know what you mean. I actually run around telling everybody. [Sarcasm comes easier than anything else and, somehow, they know each other well enough to understand each others' deflections, dryness, and humor in a strange way. Hayley knows that he'll take the words for what they are rather than any form of dismissing.]