"Yeah, I mean, I owed you cigarettes, right?" Gerard explained sheepishly, and then for something to do with his hands lit his cigarette and dragged in a lungful of smoke. "You were avoiding me for a while, and I couldn't... I probably should have given them back in person. Sorry."
Gerard watching the little puffskein skittering around for a moment, avoiding looking at Adam until what Adam was actually saying sunk in,
"What?" he asked, straightening and staring at Adam in confusion. "But... I thought I'd embarrassed you? With the whole 'Grrr, dominance, grrr' thing. Like, you thought I meant something all shady and insulting by it, but it's just really easy for my, uh, animal nature to take over sometimes." Adam was looking at him really oddly. "That's not what this is about?"