Fuck it, of course Ernie was going to say the same thing. It wasn't like his opinion had changed. Hell, if it had, Zach assumed Ernie would have had the thought to tell him because it would have - no, no, no point thinking on that. It hurt too much, and no, no bad bad face. It wasn't supposed to betray him like that, and he tried to turn his face away from Ernie's to hide the tears.
His hand slid down to the bed and found the note he had written to Ernie. Pushing it against Ernie's chest, he tried to suck in the tears before his spoke. "You can't, you know that," Zach replied, and fuck it the tears were back.