[That's... NOT HELPFUL AT ALL. Really, a huge part of him was hoping Brown would tell him that this kind of thing is foolish nonsense and he shouldn't bother and he should focus on his schoolwork. All the kinds of things he's been trying to tell himself anyway. It just would have been way easier to hear it from someone else, or at least that was his theory.

BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY:]

How I feel?! How did you--?!

[SHIIIT]

Er, no! That is... Well... Obviously, I think that... that based on experience, that kind of thing can ruin a perfectly good friendship, can't it...