"I don't want to be most people," Julius admitted, quietly. He stayed standing for the moment, but looked back to Genevieve all the same. "You know as well as I do that I've gotten in trouble enough times for talking back when I shouldn't. And you- Gen, you've always treated me well. That's- I wouldn't care so much for you if you just treated me, like, well, like someone you owned." He looked down again. "I wouldn't have done- said- those things if I hadn't wanted to."