He nodded, "good." He remembered what it looked like in Central Park, if you had the opportunity to look at it from The Rockefeller Tower, or The Empire State Building at night. Like a black abyss, right in the middle of the brightest city in the world. He always thought it was crazy how dark Central Park looked. And now, well... It's like the entire city was a black abyss. The only real light there was was the moonlight. It was sort of freaky in a way. But he'd gotten used to it over the years, as he imagined most people did. He never thought he'd say that he missed all the bright lights, but he did.
"I know," he smiled at her choice of words, but opted not to comment on it-- and then she corrected herself. So she had caught it too. 'Thinking'. It was way too cold for thinking up here. But it was also too cold to forming thoughts, yes. "I was up here the other night. Two nights, actually. Trying to form thoughts. Or I don't know. Just.." He shrugged, "clear my head. maybe." But that wasn't easy. He was always worrying. Or thinking about something.
"I told you you were like a lioness," he teased, and eventually let his smile subside a bit when she replied to his comment on 'being in the way'. Glancing down, he nodded; that was fair. It hadn't really stopped him before-- at places like, the parties or you know, just in general. Was he really always in the way? Hm.
Not wanting to be in the way, and his own troubles were the main reasons he had been scarce. And the last he'd really talked to Leah, she hadn't exactly acted like she wanted him around. Actually. She didn't. She'd suggested he go bother Lilah. And that he go 'have a crush' or whatever it was that he had on Lilah, instead of her. So he took the hint, yeah. She didn't want to be friends, and she certainly didn't want anything more. He got it.
But even if she never admitted it, she was kind of like a friend. Whether she liked it or not. Random people didn't ask other random people to watch out for their family for them. And not just anyone would watch them. He still cared about her, even if she didn't want him to. It wasn't exactly something he could just turn off.
He looked back over to her, offering a small smile when she said that she appreciated him looking out for her and her sisters, and her idiot brother, even though she had no idea. But her idiot brother had looked out for him too. So there was that.