This was not a side of himself that he showed often. It was not a part of him that very many people knew. And it was one that he liked to keep under wraps. He didn't want people to know that he had vulnerabilities. That just wasn't good. It wasn't good for people to think of him as weak.
As for the rest of it, that's who he had always been. He was popular and handsome and everyone either wanted him or envied him and that hadn't changed when he had gone to college. It was only here, at Halcyon, where he found things to be different. It was strange enough dealing with that without all the other shit compounded on top of it, but he was maintaining, or so he would like to think.
He wasn't going to punch him. He was perfectly capable of taking a joke from time to time just as long as Fisher didn't make a habit out of it.
"Help yourself." He wasn't sure that he was feeling so brave tonight. The air might have been warm, but the water looked cold. And his suspicions about that were confirmed once Fisher yelled at him from in the water. "Well what did you expect?" He yelled back at him, then he laughed. "You're going to catch one hell of a cold, man!"