the rejection callback actually stings in this one

had a session where I brought up the day he confessed, half joking, and he just went quiet instead of firing back with something cold like usual. it caught me off guard because up to that point he'd been all clipped answers and distance. the description says he used to protect you from bullies and now ignores you, and you can feel that history sitting under every short reply he gives. didn't expect a used-to-be-close-now-isn't premise to hit that specific a nerve but here we are.