[He tries to flatten his voice back out. High stress situation? Blank the expression, flatten the voice. It's mostly successful. Mostly.]
You couldn't have known then, and I treated you like you'd disregarded it.
I am fine. [Is he really? Perhaps not.] It's simply . . . That was when it would get . . . unpleasant at home. [His father hadn't been pleasant to him even when sober, but at least when there'd been no drink in him, it had just been words.]
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on 2015-03-01 05:24 am (UTC)You couldn't have known then, and I treated you like you'd disregarded it.
I am fine. [Is he really? Perhaps not.] It's simply . . . That was when it would get . . . unpleasant at home. [His father hadn't been pleasant to him even when sober, but at least when there'd been no drink in him, it had just been words.]