[This isn't like before. He can't just shut his mouth and have that be the end of it, because he needs to say something. It's like when he starts talking to somebody and loses track of what he's trying to say and starts bullshitting and he can see their eyes glaze over but he can't stop now because then it'd be worse.]

Tim this isn't...this isn't like the last time, when I asked you about Jessica--which, I mean, by the way, I still feel like kind of a piece of shit about, even though I still want to know, and I'm kinda pissed you haven't just told me, but, but--

[No no no no no. He's looking over at Tim, eyes blown wide with terror, but he can't stop.]

--but, I mean, it's almost like, like we're friends or something, and I don't want to think about that, because then I'd have to think about all the ways I've been a really, just, completely godawful friend, and I really don't want to be talking about this with an audience!

[His voice cracks on the last bit, high and hysterical in a way that's just...humiliating in every possible way.]