She really didn't understand. She really, honestly didn't understand. He never thought he would meet someone with such a tenuois grasp of social norms, desptie how brilliant she was.
"You didn't tell me any of that. You judt said you were done, canceled our party and moved out. Can't you see how I, and pretty much everyone else, would assume that to mean you were done with me? Not just the conversation, but all of it. Because as far as I'm concerned the only way you could have ended our relationship more clearly is if you had sent me the divorce papers yourself."
He wasn't sure what to do from here. He didn't know if he still wanted to be with her, not when they had such fubdementally different ideas of how the world worked. But he was also kind of glad she didn't hate him.
"So yeah, that's why I offered to leave, and Regulus called it a record for shortest relationship. It's not that I don't want to see you, just that I was pretty damn sure you didn't want to see me. Hence, you know, moving out.