How was I supposed to know that? I just... I don't know how these things work. Relationships, I mean.

[ He feels the hand on his own, and turns it so he can clasp their fingers together. ]

I thought I had fucked it up forever and it almost broke me.

[ Hence the burning and flaying comments. It was stupid and pathetic and overly dramatic, very much similar to a young first heartbreak. Only Molly was an adult, not a teenager.

Well. Kind of. ]