"I thought I hurt you."

"It's - important to you to not - ?"

"If I disliked you so much that I wanted you to get hurt then I would have just not stolen you in the first place!"

" - that is not how it was the last time someone stole me."

"Well, I guess everyone's different," he says after quite a long time because he can't think of anything else to say and can't explain why he's upset.

"I didn't - I don't mean to be ungrateful, if you tell me what you want me to do I can do it - "

"I'm confused about something and I think it's a human thing but I don't - know what exactly - 

Maybe you could just say that again in different words?"

"...I, uh, you've done a lot for me, and I appreciate it, and - I understand that part of the cost of that is probably - sleeping with you - and - and I'm not trying to get out of it, just, I hadn't - hadn't been focusing on how to not be upset about it, in that moment, and if I have some time I think I can not cry - except I'm really confused about - what you actually want, here, if it's also important to you not to hurt me - "

"I'm worried that you're ....double-counting things, or something?"

"You mean, like, because you're keeping track of debt, I shouldn't be grateful?"

This is a weird sticking point because it's not even actually relevant to the thought process, she doesn't have the right to refuse, but now she has something extra to be sad about.

"Maybe? Like, it seems like you think you did something bad by...having feelings? When you should have been having different ones?"

" - I just don't want you to think that I'm - I'm not acting like this because I'm trying to get out of something, I can do things even if they hurt me - "

"Okay."

She feels like she has not at all adequately explained herself, but she's not really sure what else to say.

Well he's not really helping.

" - do you want me to leave you alone right now, or - "

"Why? I'm not the one who's upset," he says, very obviously upset.

"I'm worried there's something I haven't explained right, I'm just - not really sure what it is - "

"You're, uh, unhappy, about being stolen by people who want you, because - I guess because it's a pretty horrible thing to have happen to you - and if you don't have time to remind yourself that you think you should feel appreciative then you feel scared and sad instead, but it speaks poorly of you in some odd human way that you would have these feelings so you'll be sad if reminded?"

"I - maybe? I don't - it's not that I think I can't be upset about it, I just - I chose this, I could have gone back, before I'd said very much to you and eaten your food, and I didn't, so - it makes sense that I have to -

" - I didn't expect you to stop, and you did, and I don't know why, and I'm worried I - I wasn't trying to communicate anything, with the crying, I just, I was scared and it happened - "

" - is there a human thing where, like, you're not supposed to acknowledge people are crying and you're just supposed to act like they're not, or it's rude?"

"I mean - I guess there are circumstances like that in specific situations, sometimes, but that's not what I - I don't understand why you care, beyond just being annoyed about it - "

" - well, if you were telling a story, and I started crying like that, would you - I don't know, have emotions about that?"

" - well yes, obviously, but stories are - if the audience panics in the middle of one it means I've done it wrong, I don't tell them just for myself."

"That seems even more true of kissing, really."